# Preloaders (Multiple External .swfs + 'hidden')

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloaders-multiple-external-swfs-hidden/44983
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 9, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloaders-multiple-external-swfs-hidden/44983 "2004-03-09T21:27:03Z")
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### Author: ![BlueBoots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@BlueBoots](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BlueBoots)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloaders-multiple-external-swfs-hidden/44983/1 "2004-03-09T21:27:03Z")

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Hey peoples,

I don’t think I was that clear in my last thread, so I’ll try and clarify things a little better.

I have several different .swf files that are my ‘scenes’ for a walk-through role-play game. (So they’re basically pictures of rooms)  
These are loaded into my Interface .swf, in a movie clip called ‘container’ following Voets tute. This works! The buttons inside each .swf relate back to the parent, or level 0, to ‘replace themselves’ with the next room.  
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My problem:\*\*  
Some rooms have large file sizes. I find games that have many pre-loaders throughout them irritating in the extreme, so I was wondering if there is a way to pre-load multiple external .swfs in one preloader, before the interface.swf starts to play. I’d like to be able to specify which ones as well.