# Preloading in main movie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139 "2006-04-11T09:07:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Vectar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Vectar)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139/1 "2006-04-11T09:07:01Z")
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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### Author:  [@suranija](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/suranija)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139/2 "2006-04-11T11:30:39Z")
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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### Author:  [@Vectar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Vectar)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139/3 "2006-04-12T09:26:33Z")
hey Suranija here is a site that works like the way i want it [http://www.sofitella.com/sofitel.htm](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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### Author:  [@aneeeeshv](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aneeeeshv)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139/4 "2006-04-13T10:48:26Z")
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](https://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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### Author:  [@Vectar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Vectar)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-in-main-movie/185139/5 "2006-04-13T16:58:39Z")
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