# Preloading external .swf?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swf/215728>\
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**Created:** [February 9, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swf/215728 "2007-02-09T20:04:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Abner\_Mellon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@Dr\_Abner\_Mellon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dr_Abner_Mellon)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swf/215728/1 "2007-02-09T20:04:21Z")

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i just built read a preloader tutorial and it says I need a scene for the preloader scene1, and scene2 for my content. I built the first scene originally as my content. How can I still get this to preload? Should I figure out to do a preloader as kind of a stand alone, and have that load an external .swf? would that be faster and allow me to do a basic animation with the preload?

I’m very new to flash web design so any help would be great!

-thanks