# Loaded bytes question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-bytes-question/65617
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 28, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-bytes-question/65617 "2004-09-28T06:56:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@newflavour](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/newflavour)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-bytes-question/65617/1 "2004-09-28T06:56:19Z")
hey folks,
I have the following code attached to a movie clip which I am using to load various images into. How would I go about finding the total size of the image being loaded so I can put it into a variable. I want to then show this variable value in a text field so the user knows how big the image is that is being loaded.
```auto
onClipEvent (data) {
this._alpha = 0;
this._x = 496;
this._y = 306;
this._x = this._x-(this._width/2);
this._y = this._y-(this._height/2);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this._alpha<100) {
this.float_alpha += 20;
this._alpha = this.float_alpha;
}
}
```
I’m sure there’s probably an easy way of doing this but at the moment my brain is fried and I can’t seem to get it.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
NF
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-bytes-question/65617/2 "2004-09-28T06:58:30Z")
show us the code with the LOAD command… are you using a movieClipEvent.loadClip or a simply loadMovie… because each has a different approach… 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-bytes-question/65617/3 "2004-09-28T07:00:26Z")
> [@3rdeye](#):
>
> show us the code with the LOAD command… are you using a movieClipEvent.loadClip or a simply loadMovie… because each has a different approach… 😉
loadMovie(“images”+LocationPrefix+imagelocation, \_root.loaderContainer);
where \_root.loaderContainer is the movie object that has the earlier code attached to it.