# Preloader NEED HELP ASAP

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711>\
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**Created:** [June 6, 2002, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711 "2002-06-06T08:49:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711/1 "2002-06-06T08:49:11Z")

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Hi,

my flash movie is designed so that everything sits within 1 MC which i called “CompleteMC”…

BUT even within this MovieClip… everything else is placed inside other Movie clips and they all sit with a maximum of 2 or 3 frames ?..

this “completeMC” sits on frame 2 of the main time line (this was done so that i can quite easily drag this “completeMC” into another movie should i need to )

Question:  
seen the kirupa tutorial on the “preloader”  
ifFramesLoaded (“label”) {  
gotoAndPlay (“label”)  
}

nice, BUT 3 things

1. the label sits within the CompleteMC and, that only has 2 frames

2. HOW do i direct the code to check a “frame label” 3 MC’s down inside each other ?

3. lastly, the total swf file = 468 KB (is this large ? it has a lot of screen dumps - its a tour of a site) AND would you suggest i preload half of it, that way people can start looking around while the rest loads?

any help, as soon as is possible would be greatly appreciated…

cheers

Ket

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711/2 "2002-06-06T09:18:24Z")

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1. Is that a question ?
2. Find the right path… \_root.my\_movie1.my\_movie2.gotoAndPlay(“label”) ;
3. It’s a bit large, but I wouldn’t advise you to do what you want to do, for the simple reason that nobody does that…

pom 0]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711/3 "2002-06-06T09:27:43Z")

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Hi POM,

cheers for the reply…( i sat and thought a little more about the problem) it just didn’t strike me that the ifFramesLoaded function could sit at the end of a path (whoops…)

I’ll take your advice and place the “finalFrame” label on the last frame of a second movie…it should have drilled down enough to have loaded the majority…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711/4 "2002-06-07T03:50:57Z")

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bytesLoaded and bytesTotal works better.

I really should write an extension for that tutorial… 🙂

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**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711/5 "2002-06-07T11:55:10Z")

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Ups, you should actually just make it into a tutorial that Kirupa can post, and take out that Framesloaded tutorial, cuz its crap. 🙂

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**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-need-help-asap/1711/6 "2002-06-07T19:00:11Z")

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Yeah… not sure why they would choose to document framesLoaded, but not document bytesLoaded… it’s a mystery to me.

I’m working on it now.