# Loading Image Underneath Flash?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-image-underneath-flash/282942>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 28, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-image-underneath-flash/282942 "2009-02-28T01:00:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![dColumbus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dColumbus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dColumbus)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-image-underneath-flash/282942/1 "2009-02-28T01:00:42Z")

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So here’s the problem:

Flash and Flex do a great job preloading themselves… however, they are big enough that they take forever to even get to that point… so the user on a slower connection sits and waits with a blank screen not knowing that the SWF is loading.

Is there a way to get an image “Loading…” underneath the Flash Object? I’ve tried it with a div background-image but it doesn’t seem to work…

Any thoughts?