# Thumbnail gallery preloader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thumbnail-gallery-preloader/251030>\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thumbnail-gallery-preloader/251030 "2008-02-04T19:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Shii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Shii)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thumbnail-gallery-preloader/251030/1 "2008-02-04T19:00:48Z")

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Hi,

I’ve used some tutorials from this site to create a really nice photo gallery using an external xml file to locate both the thumbnails and the full size images.

The thumbnails themselves are loaded inside a movieclip which allows them to be scrolled by the user - but unfortunately this movie clip itself seems to require a preloader of some kind because it take a long time for all the thumbnails to load and it looks very unprofessional.

I’ve been trying to solve this by searching for a tutorial for a simple preloader that maybe I can put inside the thumbnail gallery movieclip… but I’m having no success and I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction. (Especially if I’m approaching this the wrong way).

Thanks 🙂