# Movement Preloader?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-preloader/64917
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 21, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-preloader/64917 "2004-09-21T12:37:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ben\_is\_sparky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ben_is_sparky)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-preloader/64917/1 "2004-09-21T12:37:16Z")
I am trying to make a preloader where rather than have a bar which gets bigger, I want a movieClip to move across the stage. I am using the following code but it doesn’t work:
>
stop;
PercentLoaded = getBytesLoaded/getBytesTotal_100;
if (PercentLoaded != 100) {
setProperty(boat, \_x, PercentLoaded_12);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(“3”);
}
Can anyone help me?
It isn’t in a seperate scene or movieclip, might this be the problem?
Thanks, Ben
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-preloader/64917/2 "2004-09-21T14:16:10Z")
if your movie clip is as big as 1200 (weight) then i don’t see the problem! Else, replace the \*12 with the \*3+100 or something…Helped you?
Or…
you could replace the:
> setProperty(boat, \_x, PercentLoaded\*12);
with the:
> \_root.boat.\_x=PercentLoaded\*3;
or the:
> \_root.boat.\_x=PercentLoaded\*12;
It must work now!!
Try all this…
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-preloader/64917/3 "2004-09-21T15:27:01Z")
It isn’t the \*12 because I can take that out all together and it makes no difference.
Also, should it be whithin a movieclip because at the moment it isn’t, it’s just on frames 1 and 2 of the timeline (frame 2 being goToAndPlay(1)😉
I’ll have another look at it
Thanks
[edit]
I found this code on one of the tutorials here, which works but I don’t really see the difference Does anyone know?
>
bytes\_loaded = Math.round(\_root.getBytesLoaded());
bytes\_total = Math.round(\_root.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes\_loaded/bytes\_total;
\_root.boat.\_x = getPercent_1200;
\_root.box = Math.round(getPercent_100)+“%”;
if (bytes\_loaded == bytes\_total) {
\_root.gotoAndStop(3);
}
Also, now it works, but it only shows the first frame of my mc. Does anyone know how to make it play as it moves across?
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-preloader/64917/4 "2004-09-22T15:04:26Z")
Make only one frame, not 2 and add this to the main frame! the movieclip that will move is named ‘mc’ (without the quotas). It worked for me!!
```auto
stop();
nik=mc._x;
_root.onEnterFrame= function() {
bytes_loaded = Math.round(_root.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(_root.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total*100;
mc._x=nik+getPercent*2; //instead of *2 you can add *12 or whatever you want
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
//do when movie is loaded
}
}
```
Your code was missing the “\_root.onEnterFrame= function() {”