# Help with preloading
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 11, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041 "2004-08-11T02:42:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/1 "2004-08-11T02:42:31Z")
k i followed the turtorial for preloading that is hosted on this site
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm)
and i have used it b4 on movies i have made. The movies that ive used it on b4 were alot smaller, under 500kb.
I used it on this new movie i made which is 2.7mbs and now when i go to the website its on it doesnt load.
pls someone help me
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### Author:  [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/2 "2004-08-11T02:45:37Z")
The movie doesn’t load or your preloader doesn’t show?
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/3 "2004-08-11T02:48:37Z")
preloader don show and ive had my page open for a while and the movie still hasnt come up
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### Author:  [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/4 "2004-08-11T02:55:44Z")
Maybe this is what’s wrong?[AS][COLOR=Silver]bytes\_loaded = Math.round(this.getBytesLoaded());
bytes\_total = Math.round(this.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes\_loaded/bytes\_total;[/COLOR]
**this.loadBar.\_width = getPercent\*100;**
[COLOR=Silver]this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent\*100)+"%";
if (bytes\_loaded == bytes\_total) {
this.gotoAndPlay(3);
}[/COLOR][/AS]A lot of people, including myself, didn’t realize that the loadBar had to be 100 pixels in width in order for that script to work. Of course you can always change the script to match the size of your loadBar but could this be the problem?
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/5 "2004-08-11T02:57:00Z")
ok so wat exactly do i do… my movie dimensions are 600 by 340
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/6 "2004-08-11T03:00:58Z")
oo ya my loadbar movie is 100 H and 100 W
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### Author:  [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/7 "2004-08-11T03:01:25Z")
If you followed the tutorial properly you should have a **loadBar layer**. Select the actual load bar (should be a movie clip) and in the properties panel where the **W:** is, type in 100.
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/8 "2004-08-11T03:01:36Z")
STILL DOes same thing… nothign loads
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### Author:  [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/9 "2004-08-11T03:03:30Z")
> [@patricktheking](#):
>
> STILL DOes same thing… nothign loads
Hmmm, can you give me a link to your site?
The only thing I can think of is that your Instance Names somewhere are incorrect.
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/10 "2004-08-11T03:05:22Z")
yo its working now
sometimes it does that…
yess…
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### Author:  [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/11 "2004-08-11T03:06:43Z")
Congratulations?
Glad you got it working.
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### Author:  [@xyeight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyeight)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/12 "2004-08-11T03:31:22Z")
hey…i got a question
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### Author:  [@xyeight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyeight)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/13 "2004-08-11T03:35:27Z")
you said that the preloader bar must be width=100…so can other people use different shape and size and still functioning?
mine is :
w=6.0
h=0.4
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/14 "2004-08-11T03:57:53Z")
dude the thing doesnt work now all of a sudden…
i dun know wats wrong…
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### Author:  [@xyeight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyeight)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/15 "2004-08-11T04:00:43Z")
are you asking me?..i have same problem as well
waiting for someone more intelligent than us to help…
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/16 "2004-08-11T04:02:57Z")
lol… we could be waiting a while
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### Author:  [@xyeight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyeight)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/17 "2004-08-11T04:04:45Z")
i have another set of problem…i like to ask you if you don’t mind…
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### Author:  [@xyeight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyeight)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/18 "2004-08-11T04:08:27Z")
how can i make a preloader for load movie?
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### Author:  [@patricktheking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patricktheking)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/19 "2004-08-11T04:08:53Z")
no clue
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### Author:  [@xyeight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyeight)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloading/119041/20 "2004-08-11T04:10:14Z")
i can see that Wizard is here…is he had any idea of what we are talking about?
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