# How to preload loadmovie?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-preload-loadmovie/155545>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-preload-loadmovie/155545 "2005-07-18T19:49:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bokke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Bokke](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bokke)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-preload-loadmovie/155545/1 "2005-07-18T19:49:31Z")

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Hey people! This is the problem:

I’ve discovered that my .swf becomes verry big if I just import every picture!  
So that why I want to load the picture’s into the swf. On kirupa i found this code and it works verry nice:

> on(press){  
> loadMovie(“loadme.jpg”,\_root.theTarget);  
> }

But I also want to make a preload bar, so you can see how manny bytes are loaded.

I’ve done some tutorials on kirupa, and now i know how to make a preloader and i know how to use loadMovie… but i cant script it togetter :puzzled:  
so i hope some of you guys know how to do this!  
thanks