# Tracking loadmovie() progress on button release

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracking-loadmovie-progress-on-button-release/283914>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 12, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracking-loadmovie-progress-on-button-release/283914 "2009-03-12T13:42:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlowCon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@FlowCon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlowCon)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracking-loadmovie-progress-on-button-release/283914/1 "2009-03-12T13:42:53Z")

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Hi and hello,

I have finished our website with flash 8 / AS 2: one main swf with several buttons which load each on release the correspondent topic (external swfs) on level 1 of the main swf and unload if you click “home”. Everything works fine so far.  
But as there are A LOT OF IMAGES for each topic (as light as possible, but necessarily of a certain size), it takes a little while to load the swfs on demand. So I need a progress bar and a dynamic textfield instead of an empty screen to inform about the progress of the loading. I don’t want to use a component progress bar (design…?). Best would be a solution, that works with loadMovieNum / unloadMovieNum or, if necessary, creates an empty movieclip / container. The loading needs to start on release of a button on the main timeline in the main swf.  
I would not ask, if I had more experience with AS, but it’s the first website.  
All tutorials and examples I found on the web until now did not fit….  
I am so close to the finish, PLEASE help!