# Preload external swf's

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preload-external-swfs/163712
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 25, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preload-external-swfs/163712 "2005-09-25T12:53:10Z")
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### Author: ![bart\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@bart\_c](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bart_c)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preload-external-swfs/163712/1 "2005-09-25T12:53:10Z")

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I know this is a subject a lot is asked about, but I searched all over the net and still did not find what I am looking for…

I have got a main movie, with an empty container, and some buttons, those buttons load a swf in the container according to the following script:

[color=darkred]on (release) {  
if (\_root.currMovie == undefined) {  
\_root.currMovie = “home”;  
container.loadMovie(“home.swf”);  
} else if (\_root.currMovie != “home”) {  
if (container.\_currentframe \>= container.midframe) {  
\_root.currMovie = “home”;  
container.play();  
}  
}  
}[/color]  
[color=#8b0000][/color]  
[color=black]As you can see, it uses loadMovie… And now what I want to do, is use a preloader to preload the swf’s before they are played…[/color]

I hope this makes any sence, and that anybody can help me out since I am stuck on this for quite a while now…

PS. I did try to add a preloader to every single swf, but for some reason this doesn’t work. So what I want is that it is preloaded into the empty container.

Bart-c