# Preloader in Code

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-in-code/25290>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 11, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-in-code/25290 "2003-07-11T04:54:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![urbanscrawl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9fc348/32.png) [@urbanscrawl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/urbanscrawl)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-in-code/25290/1 "2003-07-11T04:54:41Z")

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Matrix style… I’m reposting this because I’m not sure anyone will check the other post. I hope noone minds - here goes:

Originally posted by Sinfinity: Leave two blank frames in front of the first frame of your movie and paste this into the actions of the second.

> Here is code that allows you to specify the shape and size of a loading progress bar (it’s always a rectangle). just specify the upper left corner and the lower right corner and you have a progress bar for any size stage.

// here is the order of the array…  
// upper left \_x, upper left \_y, lower right \_x, lower right \_y  
this.aCorners = [5,10,545,20];  
if (!zInit) {  
createEmptyMovieClip(“mcBorders”, 2);  
createEmptyMovieClip(“mcProgress”, 1);  
mcBorders.lineStyle(0, 0x0000ff, 100);  
mcBorders.moveTo(this.aCorners[0], this.aCorners[1]);  
mcBorders.lineTo(this.aCorners[0], this.aCorners[3]);  
mcBorders.moveTo(this.aCorners[2], this.aCorners[1]);  
mcBorders.lineTo(this.aCorners[2], this.aCorners[3]);  
mcBorders.zInit = true;  
}  
\_root.nPercentLoaded = (\_root.getBytesLoaded()/\_root.getBytesTotal())_100;  
mcProgress.beginFill(0xff0000,100);  
mcProgress.moveTo(this.aCorners[0], this.aCorners[1]);  
mcProgress.lineTo((nPercentLoaded_((this.aCorners[2]-this.aCorners[0])/100))+this.aCorners[0], this.aCorners[1]);  
mcProgress.lineTo((nPercentLoaded\*((this.aCorners[2]-this.aCorners[0])/100))+this.aCorners[0], this.aCorners[3]);  
mcProgress.lineTo(this.aCorners[0], this.aCorners[3]);  
mcProgress.endFill();  
if (\_root.nPercentLoaded\<100) {  
gotoAndPlay(\_currentframe-1);  
} else {  
removeMovieClip(\_root.mcBorders);  
removeMovieClip(\_root.mcProgress);  
}

Pretty isn’t it?

It has two little lines either end - what I’d like to know is how to put lines above and below it so that it loads in a rectangle. I’ve given it a go but my 'script just wasn’t up to it.

I’ve already changed the colour and position but if it loaded in a proper box (and perhaps had ‘Loading…’ written above it - it would surely be the tightest little Preloader that ever there was…?