# Loading Multiple SWFs at once

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-multiple-swfs-at-once/229202>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 14, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-multiple-swfs-at-once/229202 "2007-06-14T20:55:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![silverdoves](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/silverdoves/32/1349_2.png) [@silverdoves](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/silverdoves)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-multiple-swfs-at-once/229202/1 "2007-06-14T20:55:21Z")

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I don’t think I’ve posted this in this forum yet and I need all the help I can get… 😃

I’ve done quite a bit of searching for this and found that many have this question, but I’m still getting nowhere…  
It’s so frustrating when you find a tutorial and spend forever following it and it doesn’t work, but they end with “…and there you have it!! A preloader that will load all your external swfs at once!!” but it doesn’t. ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/3766/db58bd74b6da7bd1.gif)

I’m not so picky about having a loading bar and track the progress of them all, although that would be nice, but if I can just find a way to have them all load before my main movie starts while a simple animation plays (like a spinning circle) then they are all ready to go when the links are pressed. I hate that I have to work with Flash MX, since many tutorials use a different version and the actionscript is different and they use the preloader components that come with later versions.

If there’s anyone that can explain this simply and/or provide a code that will do the trick I would be SO grateful…

Thanks!

-SD