Preloader Problem

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I’m having trouble with a preloader. I’ve gone through many tutorials and they aren’t helping me with this specific issue. I have one movie that generates random snow in frame one. In another layer in this movie, I’m loading a swf into level 1 using LoadMovieNumb("****.swf", 1); Once this swf loads it plays the movie that was loading automatically. What I’d like to do is add a preloader counting percentage of the swf loaded. I can’t seem to get things arranged correctly and I’ve tried every configuration that I can think of. What I currently have is the loadmovienum command in frame 1. In frame 2 I have the following:

bytes_loaded = Math.round(_level1.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(_level1.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
_root.mytext.text = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

Frame 3 has: gotoAndPlay(2);
and Frame 4 has: stop();
It seems to stick at frame 1 until the swf is loaded which negates all of my other code. Any ideas?

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*Originally posted by claudio *
**Something like this. **

This was of great help to me in constructing my preloader. However there’s on problem I still have. I only want .swf file to play when fully loaded, but I can’t figure out where to add to the script to prevent this from happening. If I add a stop action to the loading .swf then it never plays… any advice?. Any one!.