# Preloading External .swfs
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs/60588
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 10, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs/60588 "2004-08-10T23:49:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@nlaffan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nlaffan)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs/60588/1 "2004-08-10T23:49:43Z")
I’m looking for a peice of actionscript which will give me a load-bar preloader for an externally loaded .swf file. I’m not great with actionscript (though not totally out of it.) and am currently using the :
if (\_framesloaded\>=\_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
approach, which doesn’t give me a loadbar. When I tried to use the loadbar like this:
bytes\_loaded = Math.round(\_root.getBytesLoaded());
bytes\_total = Math.round(\_root.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes\_loaded/bytes\_total;
\_root.loadBar.\_width = getPercent_100;
\_root.loadText = Math.round(getPercent_100)+"%";
if (bytes\_loaded == bytes\_total) {
\_root.gotoAndStop(3);
}
(and with a “gotoAndPlay(1);” in the next frame)
it failed to work for both the regular movies within MX 2004 as well as the externally loaded ones. I know there’s an easy fix here…I just don’t know what it is.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs/60588/2 "2004-08-11T05:45:42Z")
Where did you place your code? If your loading your external SWF into a movieclip the code should go on the movieclip itself. Here’s an example of an easy preloader I’ve done before:
```auto
onClipEvent(load){
total = _parent.getBytesTotal();
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
current = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
percent = Math.floor((current/total)*100);
_xscale = percent;
updateAfterEvent();
trace(percent);
_parent.loadPercent = percent+"%";
if (percent >= 100){
_xscale = 100;
_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
```