Loading images only once for a slideshow?

I’m building a slideshow using only ActionScript, but the computer running it will only have access to the files when the show is first started. So I need to somehow load all the images initially, and call on them from within the file itself from then on. Is there any way to do this?

Well… not a very good idea though…
preloading all images in the begining means a huge wait time for your viewers…??

It should be OK since this isn’t for the web.

Try this thread

Basically you just need to loop through an array of images and preload one a time until you are done, then start your application.