# Loading bar

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bar/64050>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 12, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bar/64050 "2004-09-12T21:37:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![fabbuki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@fabbuki](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fabbuki)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bar/64050/1 "2004-09-12T21:37:16Z")

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Dear Forum Goers,

I want to make a site with external swfs. Is there a simple way I can have a loadbar show up on the screen each time an external swf is being loaded?

-fabbuki

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bar/64050/2 "2004-09-12T23:53:49Z")

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You can make a movieclip that only has a preloader and a blank movieclip “frame”. You’d then use Actionscript to attach a copy of your preloader movie onto the stage and then another line of Actionscript to load your SWF into the movieclip’s frame.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-bar/64050/3 "2004-09-25T13:32:01Z")

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> [@trundrumbalind](#):
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> You can make a movieclip that only has a preloader and a blank movieclip “frame”. You’d then use Actionscript to attach a copy of your preloader movie onto the stage and then another line of Actionscript to load your SWF into the movieclip’s frame.

How would you go about doing that?