# \[MX2004\] External JPGs & loadMovie()

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx2004-external-jpgs-loadmovie/82743
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 12, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx2004-external-jpgs-loadmovie/82743 "2005-03-12T23:52:40Z")
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### Author: ![kBisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@kBisk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kBisk)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx2004-external-jpgs-loadmovie/82743/1 "2005-03-12T23:52:40Z")

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I have 100 mc’s loading external thumbnail jpgs via loadMovie(). I need a preloader of some sort to show the status of the thumbnails. The problem is that each of the mc’s are loading JPG individually and I am not sure of how to combine their loading statuses into a preloader. The other option I had planned to use was to make one thumbnail larger in file size than the others so that it would load last and therefore I could use some onload function for this particular thumbnail, but I do not know what would be best to use in this case.

Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated.