Preloading external movies question - the preloader bar

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hello peeps
:slight_smile:

i’ll soon have a base movie with some external swf’s that it will load using loadMovie

scenario:
i want a simple preloader to show whilst each external movie is loading (i’m using the loader component, so it’s just a bar and some text)

what i want to know is:

do i have to insert a preloader into each separate swf, or could i just add some code to the buttons in the base movie to show the preloader?

i’m guessing the first point is the only way to do it because i can’t see how the base movie would ‘know’ the size of the external movie?

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Hi (aupa),

Of course the base movie can know the size of the external movie!

Where do u load the external movies, level or MC?
once u use the loadMovie command u can check the bytesLoaded
of the container(level or MC). (Although is recomendable to give Flash a bit of time in between loadMovie and bytesLoaded check)

Cheers

SHO

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cool: i didn’t know!

i’m loading into level