# Loading

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading/27419>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 2, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading/27419 "2003-08-02T04:45:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dwilt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@dwilt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dwilt)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading/27419/1 "2003-08-02T04:45:36Z")

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On my site, I would like to have it so that when I click a button, it tells a movie clip to play and it just blinks loading. I want an external .swf to be loading while that movie clip is playing. When the external .swf loads, I want it to tell the mc to stop. How do I do all of this?

Thanks.

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**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:** [August 2, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading/27419/2 "2003-08-02T11:55:16Z")

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I did something similar here:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader\_transition.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm)