# Hi all. Preloader and Transition stupid question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 1, 2004, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497 "2004-08-01T11:02:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@blend](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blend)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/1 "2004-08-01T11:02:12Z")
Hi! I’m a newbie in this, I don’t know any actionscript, and I was trying to build a website using the preloader and transition tutorial. Here’s my question:
The external swf’s are preloaded in the main movie, which simply stops and waits for the loading. while its stoped, I can’t make a preloader bar to work in that frame. how can I work around this?
I know this is got to be simple, but I can’t get it to work… :d:
Thank you in advance for any help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/2 "2004-08-01T23:47:05Z")
If you mean what I think you mean you simply need to tell the preloader which level(s) it is preloading, i.e; \_root, \_level0 or whatever the level is.
J
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/3 "2004-08-02T01:33:46Z")
How do you go about having the preloader load first and then start up the movie. The preloader I added only starts after the whole file is downloaded. You only know it’s downloading because it says so in the Status Bar with no help at all from the Preloader I put in.
Do I have to have two swfs? One for the preloader, that loads the larger swf? I didn’t see any code for that.
Please let me know.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/4 "2004-08-02T01:48:27Z")
theres no such thing as a stupid question (flashwise) 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/5 "2004-08-02T02:03:35Z")
> [@ruski\_flasher](#):
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> theres no such thing as a stupid question (flashwise) 🙂
Unless the question itself is “how do you spell flash” :).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/6 "2004-08-02T02:10:39Z")
//offtopic…nice footer reefster! kinda reminds me of _the ring_
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/7 "2004-08-02T02:12:40Z")
Lol I went for the ancient look. And thanks.
Back to topic :bad:.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/8 "2004-08-02T02:29:36Z")
Yea, I totally just felt ignored :OP
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/9 "2004-08-02T10:01:51Z")
Could you post your .fla?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hi-all-preloader-and-transition-stupid-question/59497/10 "2004-08-02T12:28:51Z")
Heres an fla for preload+transition, hope it help.