# Loading a movie on FRAME 1?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 4, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389 "2006-04-04T20:08:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@artriste](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artriste)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389/1 "2006-04-04T20:08:11Z")
Hi,
I used a Tutorial from Senocular to preload my movies internaly.
My problem is simple:
The tutorial works only with onPress:
btn\_360.onPress = function() {
startPreload(“load/answer.swf”);
};
What I would like to do is to make a first movieclip load in the beginning without having to click any button or do anything. How can I starPreload automaticaly ? Here is the code on frame one:
* * *
btn\_360.onPress = function() {
startPreload(“load/answer.swf”);
};
// this function begins preloading a swf url
function startPreload(url){
// assign the url to the preloader
// it will load it internally
preloader\_mc.url = url;
// set destination movie clip for loaded content
preloader\_mc.target = content\_mc;
// begin the transition by playing frame 2
preloader\_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
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### Author:  [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389/2 "2006-04-04T20:10:48Z")
```auto
startPreload("load/answer.swf");
```
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### Author:  [@arriba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/arriba)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389/3 "2006-04-04T20:15:35Z")
easy…
you do this, so the function is called when you press the button:
btn\_360.onPress = function() {
startPreload(“load/answer.swf”);
};
to call de funcion when was read by de player, do this:
```auto
function doPreload(){
startPreload("load/answer.swf");
};
doPreload();
```
First you define de function, i called “dePreload”, then you call it, just writing its name. When de player reads the call apply the function. This is very usefull because, you could define functions in the \_root of de movie and call them from everywhere… for example, if you are inside another clip you could call the function again this way:
```auto
_root.doPreload();
```
That´s all… investigate it, you realize it´s very powerfull.
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### Author:  [@artriste](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artriste)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389/4 "2006-04-04T20:27:39Z")
Thank you very much.
This is a very well explained and simplified version of the function. That trully helps cause I’m not a very advanced programmer. However, it still doesn’t work… well it almost loads… but freezes.
Actually, the code you provided does the same as my experiments:
FROM:
btn\_360.onPress = function() {
startPreload(“load/apton.swf”);
};
I TRIED:
startPreload(“load/apton.swf”);
};
and it did the same as using your code:
function doPreload() {
startPreload(“load/answer.swf”);
};
doPreload();
The problem I see is that “startPreload” is already a function… so doing a doPreload() { startPreload , is a function within a function. So does that mean that I simply have to type:
startPreload(“answer.swf”);
on the first frame and it’s gonna load my clip?
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### Author:  [@artriste](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artriste)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-a-movie-on-frame-1/184389/5 "2006-04-04T20:30:42Z")
Defective:
I tried it before… I’m not a really advanced programmer, but logicaly it’s what I had came up with, and it doesn’t work. Is there an alternative?
> [@Defective](#):
>
> ```auto
> startPreload("load/answer.swf");
>
> ```