# Preloader help needed :( **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-help-needed/307071 **Category:** flash **Created:** [March 27, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-help-needed/307071 "2010-03-27T14:07:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![jany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jany](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jany) #### Post date: [March 27, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-help-needed/307071/1 "2010-03-27T14:07:34Z")
So I have a preloader for my program and I swear I have the hardest times with preloaders… It isn’t working because it keeps saying that it " Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference." The problem is, the program itself works perfectly without the preloader, but when I add the preloader to the mix, it doesn’t work because it is trying to play the program before loading it or something, and it tells me it can’t find a object because it is null even though it isn’t, and works fine like I said when running the program without the preloader. I first started trying a preloader within the program, just adding a new scene. That doesn’t work good because if its a large program it won’t start showing the preloader until 40%+, which kinda kills the point of the preloader. So I went a new preloader route, and trying to simply load my SWF. This is where it is saying it can’t find the object, even though the object is a class and the class is in the same folder as my SWF and preloader. This is really killing me. Anyone got any ideas? :jail::kir: :My Setup: ## Program.swf //within my program, the document class is “class1.as” class1.as class2.as //This works perfect, without a preloader, and the document class is called, and that talks to class2 without error// ## Now when I throw the preloader in the mix, I get this: preloader --\> preloading Program.swf Error Message: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at class1()