# Preloader issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issue/302597>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 4, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issue/302597 "2010-01-04T03:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![chirpyz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@chirpyz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chirpyz)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issue/302597/1 "2010-01-04T03:42:42Z")

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Hello, I am a first time poster. I was going through your preloader tutorial here: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm)  
and I had some issues with it on execution. I am using Flash CS4, but am exporting to Actionscript 2/Flash player 9.  
Using your Actionscript code example, my text percentage counter does not show up, not even when I download your partial Flash file example.  
However, when I download your complete Flash file the percentage text shows up fine. I noticed that in your example on the site it shows the code using this.whatever and looking at the code in your completed file you have the code written using \_root.whatever instead of this.whatever. That is the only difference I see.  
Is there a reason for the change and a reason why one method would work correctly and another would not? The loadBar still seems to work fine, it’s just the text not showing up.  
Thanks in advance.