# Loading .swf with preloader

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-with-preloader/249269
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 17, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-with-preloader/249269 "2008-01-17T02:03:53Z")
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### Author: ![odd\_foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/41988e/32.png) [@odd\_foo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/odd_foo)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-swf-with-preloader/249269/1 "2008-01-17T02:03:53Z")

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Hello. I’m no real expert at flash. I understand the way it works, and, well, Action Script I suck at. I’m a typical frame by frame type of guy. So here’s my issue.

I am making a dynamic map of an area that contains a lot of Lots for sale. Every lot has a button, you click it, it opens details _pretty much the same info on each lot_.

Each Lot Window has 15 thumbs of houses available to purchase _templates_.

I want each house to open a new MC, but also load an external swf file that contains several larger photos, between 500kb to 2mb in size. I need a simple way to load an external swf with a preloader that’s also simple to use.’

As of yet, I can’t find any tutorials or examples online that I can use or understand.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!