Preloading in main movie

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Hey everybody can somebody give me a clue on how to build the following: I will have a main.swf that has 3 buttons in th emain swf is a movieclip that will load in the new movies when clicking on one of the 3 buttons. when i click on one of the buttons the movieclip content will dim to 50% alpha or something like that then the preloader starts preloading in the main swf and when he is finished the new swf appaers. Basically what i need to know is how the preload external swf files from the main swf

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I donno whether I understood wat u have put across… But If I am right…
U can use a preloader in the three different swf’s itself… then load that in to ur main movie on release of a button.

I think this was ur problem…
If u can better explain wat exactly u r looking for … may be I could put forward my ideas…

:cowboy: Sam

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hey Suranija here is a site that works like the way i want it http://www.sofitella.com/sofitel.htm

As you take the swf files out of your temporary internet files you will see that the preloader is in the main swf file.
when clicking on a button you will still see the previous swf file but then faded out a little.

Hopefully you will understand what i mean.

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The method i use creating a empty movie clips and loading each movies

Heres the script

//-------------------------------------------------- [ GLOBAL PRELOADER] ----------------------------------------------------------//
var empty = this.createEmptyMovieClip(“cup”, “100”);
empty._x = 0;
empty._y = 177.0;
my_mc_load = new MovieClipLoader();
preload = new Object();
my_mc_load.addListener(preload);
preload.onLoadStart = function(targetMC) {
trace("started loading "+targetMC);
cup._alpha = 0;
bar.endR = 100;
pText._visible = true;
};
preload.onLoadProgress = function(targetMC, lBytes, tBytes) {
bar._width = (lBytes/tBytes)*899;
pText.text = “% “+Math.round((lBytes/tBytes)*100);
};
preload.onLoadComplete = function(targetMC) {
//cup.fadeIn();
cup._alpha = 100;
cup.play();
bar.endR = 0;
pText._visible = false;
trace(targetMC+” finished”);
trace(“section_on”+section_on);
if (section_ID == “intro_sequeance”) {
intro_sequeance();
}
if (section_ID == “home_sequeance”) {
home_sequeance();
}
};

if you load any movie to dynamically generated mc “cup” preloader will activate and will play the mc after preloading. Here “bar” is my preloader instance name

Hope this helps…

yo

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hey many thanks for the script.
I maybe asking alot but would you have a sample file for me so i can study it because my actionscript knowledge is not that big.

thanks