# Playing a movieclip while preloading

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-a-movieclip-while-preloading/221721>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-a-movieclip-while-preloading/221721 "2007-04-06T18:19:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![vcugreg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce73a5/32.png) [@vcugreg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vcugreg)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-a-movieclip-while-preloading/221721/1 "2007-04-06T18:19:59Z")

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I am trying to figure out how to connect a preloader with a movieclip I made. Essentialy what I want to happen is for the heart graphic to start out black and white and as the percentage preloaded increase, the color version of the heart I masked will appear. Here is the link to the .FLA file. I have a basic mask over the colored version of the heart that I motion tweened to move. Now that I have this setup, how do I plug it into a preloader to enable it to sub as a load bar. Partially coloring the image as more of the document is loaded.

Thanks for your help on this.

Greg

Link:

[www.gregwrightdesigns.com/heart\_loader.fla](http://www.gregwrightdesigns.com/heart_loader.fla)