# Preloader problems

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-problems/34076>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 27, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-problems/34076 "2003-10-27T21:47:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rlLife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@rlLife](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rlLife)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-problems/34076/1 "2003-10-27T21:47:11Z")

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hi,

i have a movie that loads into a different move.

movie1.swf loads into movie2.swf but the problem that i have is i want a preloader on movie1. all of the preloaders that i have found or use use \_root in the actionscript and this seems to mess things up because it goes to the \_root of movie1 since movie1 is actually loaded into movie2. does anyone know a way around this.

rl

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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:** [October 27, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-problems/34076/2 "2003-10-27T21:53:38Z")

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use \_this. instead of \_root.

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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:** [October 27, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-problems/34076/3 "2003-10-27T22:13:17Z")

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yeh i tryed that and i was able to get it to work for part of the loader as far as at the end i have a tell target and \_this worked but on the rest of the preloader it just seems to mess things up.

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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:** [October 27, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-problems/34076/4 "2003-10-27T22:15:10Z")

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i was able also to get it to work when i made a simple preloader were it was not trying to use a bar and percent loaded