# Loading variables **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [October 20, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532 "2001-10-20T00:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/1 "2001-10-20T00:15:02Z")
is it possible to load a graphic movie (.jpg, etc) into the actual movie from a different directory to reduce the size of the whole movie? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/2 "2001-10-20T18:28:27Z")
Easiest way is to make it into a swf (freeware: jpg2swf) so you can just loadMovie-it… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/3 "2001-10-21T01:26:20Z")
i don’t see why there are programs that can do this. making jpegs into swf’s are so easy! you just import it in the program, save, then create the swf! some people just waste their time… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/4 "2001-10-21T11:26:12Z")
maybe, but x100 and you start to go “can’t this be done automatically?” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/5 "2001-10-21T11:36:17Z")
Exactly! One or two is ok, but in large amounts, its easier if it can be batched or simplified… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/6 "2001-10-21T14:11:32Z")
speaking of which… eyezberg, could you post a link to the aforementioned program? i couldn’t scare it up with a google search. thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/7 "2001-10-22T09:05:27Z")
[www.zarinmedia.com/software](http://www.zarinmedia.com/software) But: "Please note this software is “card ware”. So it’s gonna cost you a lot!! 😉 Also check out this little utility: [www.flashtoolset.com/FTS/…shots.html](http://www.flashtoolset.com/FTS/screenshots.html) which allows you to extract clips and graphics from a swf…might help someday 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/8 "2001-10-23T01:57:53Z")
what is a “card ware” and what will it cost me…I just got it for free so it sounds, a o k to me lol? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/9 "2001-10-23T11:01:37Z")
As it says on the page, all you gotta do is send 'em a postcard, and you’re registered, lol…costs the price of a stamp and keeps developpers happy, so do it! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-variables/3532/10 "2001-10-24T00:00:01Z")
thanks freeze! this’ll go in the toolbox!