# Need help with preloader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-preloader/29402>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 26, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-preloader/29402 "2003-08-26T13:59:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Boom\_dk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f05b48/32.png) [@Boom\_dk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Boom_dk)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-preloader/29402/1 "2003-08-26T13:59:46Z")

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Can somebody tell whats wrong??? The ‘loader’ works but it doesn’t show percentage loaded… Just ‘\_leve…’ …

Help please!! (Unfairly big file… Dunno why…)

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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 26, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-preloader/29402/2 "2003-08-26T14:42:19Z")

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this seems to work…  
i deleted the \_root.Loader, so it became:  
loadText = Math.round(getPercent\*100)+"%";

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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 26, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-preloader/29402/3 "2003-08-26T14:45:21Z")

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You set the variable of the textbox. If the variable of a textbox hasn’t been defined yet, it shows the path to the textbox in the textbox.

Also, you didn’t give your movieclip an instance name, but you did call Loader, which is inside the movieclip, from \_root.

This should do it: