# Stuck with preloading external images and a prototype loadmeter?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-with-preloading-external-images-and-a-prototype-loadmeter/39030>\
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**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-with-preloading-external-images-and-a-prototype-loadmeter/39030 "2004-01-02T11:29:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![keitai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@keitai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/keitai)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-with-preloading-external-images-and-a-prototype-loadmeter/39030/1 "2004-01-02T11:29:52Z")

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Hi there,

First, happy NY everyone.

Secondly, i am stuck with preloading external images. My movie is structered as follows:

1 Two scenes, preload and Scene1  
2 The last frame in Scene1 has the name “end”  
3 In the preload scene i have

```php

total_bytes = this.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = this.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percent_done);
ifFrameLoaded ("Scene 1", "end") {
	gotoAndPlay ("Scene 1", 1);
}

```

4 This is where everything goes wrong; in the first frame of Scene1 i have:

```php

//un - comment for testing purpose
dir = "test";
//dir defines the photo dir comes our param var
//path to photos
//we can make this dynamic by +dir
_global.pathToPics = "test/";
////load the photos in an array
_global.pArray = ["ph_big1.jpg", "ph_big2.jpg", "ph_big3.jpg", "ph_big4.jpg"];
//testing set loaded file equal 0
_global.loadedFile = 0;
MovieClip.prototype.loadPhoto = function () {
	// specify the movieclip to load images into
	//see array length
	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
		pIndex = i;
		trace ("pIndex = " + pIndex);
		bgTest = "bg_ph" + pIndex;
		bigMov.bg["bg_ph" + pIndex].loadMovie (pathToPics + pArray[pIndex]);
		trace ("PHOTO BEING LOADED: "+pathToPics + pArray[pIndex]);
		trace ("BGCLIP CONTAINER: " + bgTest);
		trace ("help me " + bigMov.bg.bgTest);
		bigMov.bg["bg_ph" + pIndex].onEnterFrame = loadMeter ();
	}
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadMeter = function () {
	var l, t;
	l = this.getBytesLoaded ();
	trace ("LOADED BYTES: " + l);
	t = this.getBytesTotal ();
	trace ("TOTAL BYTES: " + t);
	trace ("this : " + this._width);
	if (t > 0 && l == t) {
		this._visible = 1;
		trace ("loaded");
		delete this.onEnterFrame;
		if (this._width > 1) {
			_global.loadedFile++;
		if (_global.loadedFile == _global.pArray.length)
		{
			trace("	Loaded all files...");
			root.gotoAndPlay("goHere");
		}
		}
	}
};
loadPhoto ();
stop();

```

Now when i look at the trace messages the ones that don’t work correctly are the loaded bytes and total bytes. I know for sure that my 4 jpg’s have different byte sizes, but somehow it traces “LOADED BYTES: 12789” and none of my jpg’s has such a bytesize. In fact their bytesizes are: 41, 35, 37, 24 kb.

But the trace PHOTO BEING LOADED does what i thought it would do

```php

PHOTO BEING LOADED: test/ph_big1.jpg
BGCLIP CONTAINER: bg_ph0
......
.....
PHOTO BEING LOADED: test/ph_big2.jpg
BGCLIP CONTAINER: bg_ph1
......
etc

```

So where in MovieClip.prototype.loadMeter does it go wrong???

Grtz,