# Preloading a .swf
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 19, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773 "2001-09-19T17:52:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/1 "2001-09-19T17:52:03Z")
## is there anyway to preload a .swf file ? example: i got a button and when i press it i want some script on it telling the .swf to be preloaded before it actually comes up… i already know about
## if (\_framesloaded\>=\_totalframes) { gotoAndPlay (2); } else { gotoAndPlay (1); }
but that script is only when i got the .swf in and its on frame1…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/2 "2001-09-19T21:19:05Z")
Hey sajber,
This was a very popular question a few weeks ago on this thread. I don’t think we were able to find a way to do this. Try posting this in the ActionScript forum, I bet Thoriphes, supra, upuaut, eyezberg, dan, vts, or some of our other master flashers might know what to do 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/3 "2001-09-19T22:08:38Z")
you can leave the first frame of the swf you’re loading blank with a stop action in it.
then in your main movie (say you load it into level 3) loop these actions:
progress = \_level3.getBytesLoaded()/\_level3getBytesTotal()\*100;
if(progress == 100){
\_level3.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
you can also use that progress variable to make a nice loading bar.
good luck
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/4 "2001-09-20T06:22:17Z")
ok tnx suprabeener ! ill try it
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/5 "2001-09-20T07:48:40Z")
hmm cant say it worked…\*\*\*\* =(
but on the other hand i gotta have an action before that 1 u wrote… an action that loads the .swf into the right layer !!
else it aint nothing in the layer it is trying to load…
i know there is ways to preload the .swf before it pops up…
but i cant figure it out mysef… ☹
u got any other suggestions ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/6 "2001-09-20T07:56:07Z")
OMG!! I JUST FOUND THIS ON THE WEB!!
[www.flashkit.com/movies/S…reloaders/](http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/Preloaders/)
here is like all the preloader types in the world !!!
and i found 1 that is exactly what im after !!! ^^
YEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/7 "2001-09-21T05:58:39Z")
Good for you… and thank you very much for posting the link… most people would have found that and never responded back to this thread. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/8 "2001-09-21T07:07:35Z")
np ^^
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/9 "2001-09-21T07:40:22Z")
ey sAjber, went there but there were too many of them.
u still remember the exact title of the one that suited ur need?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/10 "2001-09-21T13:55:38Z")
ya its was named:
Preloader for external .swf files!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/11 "2001-09-22T01:34:46Z")
thanks, will check it out.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2001, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-a-swf/3773/12 "2001-09-22T10:09:23Z")
youll have to make a nwe movie/swf…then insert a preloader in this movie…then u give the butten the action that u want…a \_root. action should be best in this case if you want to load this swf from another swf