# Question about preloaders

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-preloaders/119799
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 18, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-preloaders/119799 "2004-08-18T03:24:08Z")
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### Author: ![Fidelity88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@Fidelity88](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Fidelity88)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-preloaders/119799/1 "2004-08-18T03:24:08Z")

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Im trying to use my preloader on an already made fla file which I guess will become an .swf when its done but how do you do this? I have not had sucesses at this yet.  
Thanks  
Fidelity

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### Author: ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-preloaders/119799/2 "2004-08-18T03:27:12Z")

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You could just drag all your frames over two spaces (frame3) and place the preloader in the first two frames.

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### Author: ![bobdoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/51bf81/32.png) [@bobdoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bobdoe)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-preloaders/119799/3 "2004-08-18T10:25:41Z")

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target the .swf with your preloader along with loadMovie.