# Preloader Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-question/223551>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-question/223551 "2007-04-23T21:04:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![theuprock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@theuprock](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theuprock)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-question/223551/1 "2007-04-23T21:04:53Z")

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For this preloader - [http://www.theuprock.com/preloader.swf](http://www.theuprock.com/preloader.swf) - I want the U to gradually mask from 0% visible to 100% visible as the content is loaded, but I’m at a loss at to how to do this correctly. A large majority of the preloader tutorials and walkthroughs I have found online are ones that use the bytesloaded and prints that on-screen, and the animation is via a bar-grow animation, which is opposite of what I want to do…sort of.

Any suggestions? I plan to put a preload scene in each of my external SWF files that are being loaded, so that we can maintain some level of similarity between all the external files, but I also want to make sure that you definitely see this U-grow animation at least for a few seconds (I am sure that with the content on each of these sub-SWF’s that the loading time won’t be an issue, and you’ll be able to see each one).

Greatly appreciate the help.