# Preloader
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 8, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044 "2003-07-08T21:00:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@wyclef](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wyclef)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/1 "2003-07-08T21:00:31Z")
Hi, why doesn’t this line work?
\_root.removeMovieClip(“preloader”)
The preloader won’t go away when it’s complete.
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\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“preloader”, 100);
\_global.pl = \_root.preloader;
function doPreload(mc) {
if (mc.thisLoaded != true) {
Bl = mc.getBytesLoaded();
Bt = mc.getBytesTotal();
mc.percentDone = Math.round((Bl/Bt)\*100);
plFld.text = mc.percentDone+pl.loadedTxt;
\_global.plB.\_xscale = mc.percentDone;
if (Bl == Bt && Bt\>8) {
clearInterval(\_root.pl\_int);
\_root.removeMovieClip(“preloader”);
mc.thisLoaded = true;
\_root.doWhenLoaded(mc);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
}
function doWhenLoaded(mc) {
mc.gotoAndStop(“init”);
}
//| syntax:
//| preload(preloader.\_x, preloader.\_y, progressBar color, status text color);
//| or
//| preload();
MovieClip.prototype.preload = function(X, Y, W, H, Boffset, Bcol, Tcol) {
\_root.preloader.removeMovieClip;
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“preloader”, 100);
// setting defaults when unspecified
pl.loadedTxt = “% Loaded”;
W = (W == undefined) ? 100 : W;
H = (H == undefined) ? 5 : H;
X = (X == undefined || X == “center”) ? Stage.width/2-W/2 : X;
Y = (Y == undefined || Y == “center”) ? Stage.height/2-H/2 : Y;
Boffset = (Boffset == undefined) ? 0 : Boffset;
Bcol = (Bcol == undefined) ? 0x999999 : Bcol;
Tcol = (Tcol == undefined) ? 0x999999 : Tcol;
// end setting defaults
pl.\_x = X;
pl.\_y = Y;
// create the background for progressBar
pl.beginFill(Bcol, 50);
pl.moveTo(-Boffset, -Boffset);
pl.lineTo(W+Boffset, -Boffset);
pl.lineTo(W+Boffset, H+Boffset);
pl.lineTo(-Boffset, H+Boffset);
pl.lineTo(-Boffset, -Boffset);
pl.endFill();
//| setup the progress bar
pl.createEmptyMovieClip(“progressBar”, 1);
\_global.plB = pl.progressBar;
plB.beginFill(Bcol, 50);
plB.moveTo(0, 0);
plB.lineTo(W, 0);
plB.lineTo(W, H);
plB.lineTo(0, H);
plB.lineTo(0, 0);
plB.endFill();
plB.\_xscale = 1;
//|setup the load status textFormat
\_global.plFt = new textFormat();
plFt.font = “Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, \_sans”;
plFt.size = 9;
//|setup the load status textField
pl.createTextField(“loadStatus\_txt”, 2, 1, 12-Boffset, 100, 100);
\_global.plFld = \_level0.preloader.loadStatus\_txt;
plFld.autoSize = true;
plFld.background = false;
plFld.selectable = false;
plFld.border = false;
plFld.textColor = Tcol;
plFld.text = “0”+pl.loadedTxt;
plFld.setNewTextFormat(plFt);
plFld.\_y -= (plFld.textHeight);
\_root.pl\_int = setInterval(doPreload, 1, this);
};
// preload this movie
stop();
preload(); // status bar is on middle of Stage
// or specify
//preload(this.\_x+10, this.\_y+10, 200, 2, 2, 0x990000, 0x990000);
preload(undefined, undefined, 170, 16, 0, 0xDCDCDC, 0xFFFFFF);
nextScene();
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/2 "2003-07-08T22:05:50Z")
```auto
_root.removeMovieClip(preloader)
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/3 "2003-07-08T22:14:10Z")
we should do a whole forum section about preloaders 😉
nice code though…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/4 "2003-07-08T22:47:45Z")
Jingman, I took out the quotes and it still didn’t remove the movieclip.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/5 "2003-07-08T23:30:27Z")
\_root.preloader.removeMovieClip()
removeMovieClip() has no parameters. It is target.removeMovieClip().
[edit]
oh, and it has to be on a removeable depth (level 1 and up), which in your case it is, but just for future reference 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/6 "2003-07-09T02:58:34Z")
Thanks, that did the trick.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/25044/7 "2003-07-09T03:12:02Z")
🙂 Glad to help