# URGENT - preload external swf and transition

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-preload-external-swf-and-transition/111565>\
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**Created:** [May 28, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-preload-external-swf-and-transition/111565 "2004-05-28T07:12:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![virgimadrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e57/32.png) [@virgimadrid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/virgimadrid)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-preload-external-swf-and-transition/111565/1 "2004-05-28T07:12:39Z")

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Hello,  
I’ve seen the tutorial about transition and preloading external swf. [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader\_transition.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm)  
However, when I try do do it by myself, I encounter the following problem:  
I’ve created 3 swf, which would correspond to photo.swf, gallery.swf and profile.swf, changing the JPG to be shown.  
What happens is that when I play the movie, it runs ok, but when I press the buttons, it shows the correspondent external swf but the jpeg inside it is resized to huge.  
Could you help me please?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-preload-external-swf-and-transition/111565/2 "2004-05-28T10:10:34Z")

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have u just resized it already down within flash? or is it just going on its own little world maybe if u tried resizing it to the size u want outside of flash like in PS or something it might be ok im not sure as i havent tried this tutorial b4 but it might actually be useful for something i want to create.

-Tom

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-preload-external-swf-and-transition/111565/3 "2004-05-29T08:26:42Z")

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I have found a “half-solution”. Apparently somewhere hidden in the code there’s a command with the size the photo should be shown in. As I couldn’t find this commamd to resize it as I wanted, the solution I found was resizing my photos in their swf, to a strange measure that when shown in the main movie looks great.  
Just to let you know, the original jpg was 316x252 I had to resize it to 316x150, resulting a narrow jpeg. When shown in the main movie you see the 316x252 I wanted.

> [@novatake](#):
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> have u just resized it already down within flash? or is it just going on its own little world maybe if u tried resizing it to the size u want outside of flash like in PS or something it might be ok im not sure as i havent tried this tutorial b4 but it might actually be useful for something i want to create.
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> -Tom