# Preloader tutorial for you all **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218 "2003-06-27T11:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kO2n](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ko2n/32/248_2.png) [@kO2n](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kO2n)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/1 "2003-06-27T11:44:17Z")
I have written a preloader tutorial for you all. [http://www.geocities.com/lostboyviru/Preloader\_Tutorial/tutorial\_1.htm](http://www.geocities.com/lostboyviru/Preloader_Tutorial/tutorial_1.htm) Comments and such welcome. Thanks, Viru. ---
**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 27, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/2 "2003-06-27T13:06:32Z")
thank you for your usefull tutorial šŸ™‚ ---
**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 27, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/3 "2003-06-27T14:49:36Z")
Great with tutorials but thereĀ“s a little error in the [AS]if (bytes\_loaded = = bytes\_total)[/AS] The space between the ā€œ=ā€ should be deleted and then itĀ“s fine šŸ™‚ Good work kO2n ---
**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 27, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/4 "2003-06-27T14:54:01Z")
Thanks guys! I had to include the space otherwise the ā€˜=ā€™ look joined up. Viru. ---
**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 27, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/5 "2003-06-27T14:57:25Z")
Aha I see. ---
**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 27, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/6 "2003-06-27T15:09:46Z")
Very nice!Thank you 4 the great tutorial, it will help a lot of people around:flower: ---
**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 27, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/7 "2003-06-27T18:43:37Z")
hmm page could not be displayed. iā€™d like to see a tute on making one preloader that preloads all movies, instead of having a pre for each one. ---
**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 27, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/8 "2003-06-27T18:47:41Z")
Ok Digital, thatā€™ll be my next tutorial. Viru. ---
**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 27, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/9 "2003-06-27T18:53:50Z")
Digitalosophy, thats just wat i did with my example. 1 preloader for all external SWFā€™s [CHECK HERE](http://www.geocities.com/claudiodj) Hope it helps u. ---
**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 27, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/10 "2003-06-27T19:00:32Z")
Viru sounds good šŸ™‚ Claudio, i just happeend to look at your tute before, but didnā€™t open the source code. thank you i wil try this later Thanks Viru, And Claudio ---
**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 27, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/11 "2003-06-27T19:07:33Z")
just a thoughtā€¦ i wouldnā€™t use **\_root** in the code, it wonā€™t work if youā€™re loading an external SWF into a MovieClip. unfortunately, most people donā€™t know how to modify the code to suit their needs. :-\ ---
**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 27, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/12 "2003-06-27T19:11:39Z")
ThatĀ“s probobly my problem do you (kax) have any idea what I should use instead of \_root. ---
**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 27, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/13 "2003-06-27T19:31:58Z")
you could simply remove it, or use **this** instead. that should doā€¦ šŸ˜› ---
**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 27, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/14 "2003-06-27T19:43:19Z")
That is strikingly similar to my tutorialā€¦ [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm) ---
**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 27, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/15 "2003-06-27T19:58:33Z")
lol @ lost šŸ˜› i thought so tooā€¦ :crazy: ---
**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 27, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/16 "2003-06-27T20:43:07Z")
Read it properly and uā€™ll see i have noted that its based on a kirupa tutorial. But mine goes into a bit more detail with the code explanation and i also did say about changing \_root. to this. so that it will work for externally loaded swf. Just tried to do something nice, jeez. ---
**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 27, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/17 "2003-06-27T21:16:16Z")
sorryā€¦ šŸ˜› i guess you can say that any of us (mooler, lostinbeta and me) actually read the whole thing. :-\ however, i still believe that no one should use \_root in a tutorial. only to prevent confusions and/or malfunctions. just my two centsā€¦ šŸ˜‰ ---
**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 27, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/18 "2003-06-27T21:22:33Z")
I never said anything bad about it šŸ˜‰ I was just saying it was strikingly similar to my tutorial. I did happen to breeze over that first paragraph where you said it was an expansion of mine though :trout: (to myself) And as Kax saidā€¦ you should use ā€œthisā€ in your tutorial, you would be surpised how many tons of people donā€™t read the tutorials but copy and paste the code and put it wherever they want to and hope it will work šŸ˜› ---
**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 27, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/19 "2003-06-27T21:24:04Z")
kO2n : I donā€™t think lost was jumping down your throat, heā€™s not here for that ---
**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 28, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-tutorial-for-you-all/24218/20 "2003-06-28T12:41:59Z")
Well there is still no tut on how to load swf:s into an " statick" MC in your main timeline and have a loadbar and textbox showing the progress. Lostinbeta had a working code in this thread [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15472](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15472) But that is if your create an empty MC and positioning that MC at your main timeline. Any ideas of how to achieve to first sentence IĀ“m all out ofĀ“em. šŸ™‚