# Preloader issues

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issues/184804>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 7, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issues/184804 "2006-04-07T23:38:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tomto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tomto](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tomto)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issues/184804/1 "2006-04-07T23:38:31Z")

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Hiya

In the process of doing my new site, have everything else working fine except my preloader.

For some unknown reason, I just can’t get it to work.

I’ve been advised that I need the preloader as an external .swf, which in turn loads up the mc.

```auto
myBytesLoaded = this.container.getBytesLoaded();
myBytesTotal = this.container.getBytesTotal();
//trace(myBytesLoaded)
//trace(myBytesTotal)
if (myBytesLoaded >= myBytesTotal && myBytesTotal > 10) {
    stop();
} else {
    
    percentOutput = "LOADING... "+int((myBytesLoaded/myBytesTotal)*100)+"%";
    
    setProperty("loadbar", _xscale, (myBytesLoaded/myBytesTotal)*100);
    play();
}

```

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Guitar101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ccd318/32.png) [@Guitar101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Guitar101)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issues/184804/2 "2006-04-07T23:55:47Z")

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Check out senocular’s flash tutorials page…here’s the link for the proload tuts page.

[Senocular’s Flash Preload Tutorial](http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/)

it helped me…from what it says…I don’t know if I would have it as an external file…I usually just use a first frame preloader, and have another preloader in the main timeline for external swiffs.

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**Author:** ![SmoothDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SmoothDime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SmoothDime)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-issues/184804/3 "2006-04-08T22:49:46Z")

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you need to combine what you have with an onEnterFrame or setInterval.