# Those crazy Preloaders
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/those-crazy-preloaders/15778
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 18, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/those-crazy-preloaders/15778 "2003-03-18T00:58:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Derek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Derek)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/those-crazy-preloaders/15778/1 "2003-03-18T00:58:33Z")
ok… i’m making a flash website for myself… i want to make a pictures swf where it’s a slide show… i probably got the idea from this site but i cant remember… anyway, here’s my problem:
[Http://members.aol.com/Dweebik/Derek/Pictures2.swf](Http://members.aol.com/Dweebik/Derek/Pictures2.swf)
click on the forward arrow at the bottom and you’ll see… argh… a grey bar where a preloader should be!!! what i was trying to do was load a picture in a blank movieclip… because the pictures are kinda biggish, i wanted to put them in a swf file and have them be preceeded by a preloader…
the preloader itself works:
[Http://members.aol.com/Dweebik/Derek/Pic1.swf](Http://members.aol.com/Dweebik/Derek/Pic1.swf)
could someone please help me out?
thanks,
Derek
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/those-crazy-preloaders/15778/2 "2003-03-18T06:01:41Z")
hi,
i got your problem…
you have to use following commands for the preloader
holderMovieclip.getBytesTotal()
holderMovieclip.getBytesLoaded()
regards
ajok
[ajok@indiatimes.com](mailto:ajok@indiatimes.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/those-crazy-preloaders/15778/3 "2003-03-18T09:15:51Z")
Yes, check the tutorial again…
Lost has been kind enough to have changed it for this very problem…
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm)
Daveman
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/those-crazy-preloaders/15778/4 "2003-03-18T18:25:07Z")
hehe daveman that sounds like and illegelal footer :hinthint: