# Loading swf files
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-files/35172
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 11, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-files/35172 "2003-11-11T06:39:21Z")
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### Author:  [@rave\_t](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rave_t)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-files/35172/1 "2003-11-11T06:39:21Z")
If i want to load say 3 swf files into empty movieclips from the main timeline, should i load them one by one in each frame or can i load all of them in just one frame??
I know that i can make a progressbar for each swf in their own swf file but, is it possible to make a progress bar from main timeline for all movieclips togehter, a “total” loading progressbar??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-files/35172/2 "2003-11-11T07:13:19Z")
all one frame ok but different holderClips and/or levels …
but be mindfull of too much content at once.
Why not combine the three into one and load it ?
…(this will simplify your preload as well)…
you’d have to conncoct a work-around to have a preloader listen to another clip … dunno how for sure…