# Including .SWF Files

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-swf-files/171337>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 4, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-swf-files/171337 "2005-12-04T15:55:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![odd\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@odd\_1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/odd_1)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/including-swf-files/171337/1 "2005-12-04T15:55:05Z")

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I have a question. Since I’m not a good action scripter, I was wondering if there’s a way to solve my problem here. I have several .swf files, and I decided, I wanted to load them from a seperate movie using

[color=red]\_root.swf\_file.loadMovie(“moviename.swf”); [/color][color=black]in a frame[/color]

what I wanna know is this. Is there a way to have the MAIN file which has that include script, have a preloader that will preload ALL the external files before it even begins to display them all on the main movie?

Thank you, and if you want to see my main.fla file, email me at [nick@pro-fyle.com](mailto:nick@pro-fyle.com) and I can send or show you the source.

thx