# Loading external .SWF's, Fade transitions and Loader bar

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swfs-fade-transitions-and-loader-bar/266158>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 16, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swfs-fade-transitions-and-loader-bar/266158 "2008-07-16T21:20:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swfs-fade-transitions-and-loader-bar/266158/1 "2008-07-16T21:20:57Z")

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:proud:Hi everyone, I’ve been reading around the Web and looking at my ActionScript 3.0 book for a while now. I’ve gathered some knowledge about what I want to do, but I don’t know ActionScript enough to make logical deductions when it comes to making modules like this one.

I need this to finish my personal Website, here is what I had in mind. I wanted to make a module that can load external SWF’s, and when it loads them it has a little preloader. If you change SWF’s, it fades out the current one, removes it and loads the next .SWF

Another example

Press button 1 -\> load external button1.swf + activates preloader -\> display content  
With button 1 loaded -\> press button 2 -\> fades out button1.swf -\> load external button2.swf + activates preloader… ETC

I basically have everything in separate parts… how to load an external .SWF, a preloader with error checking (taken from here, TY senocular! :proud:)

But it’s making it all work together that I have no clue… anyways any help would be appreciated.

TY.

edit: I also forgot to mention that I wanted the .SWF to load in a specific area (i.e.: a Movie Clip) but I read that you can’t really do that in AS3, because you use the display list? I’m confused.

I have the external .SWF’s load in my content\_mc Movie Clip, but they are offset like crazy for some reason.