# When the loading bar is a different movie

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**Created:** [April 13, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-the-loading-bar-is-a-different-movie/286301 "2009-04-13T14:34:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonnyJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@JonnyJ](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JonnyJ)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-the-loading-bar-is-a-different-movie/286301/1 "2009-04-13T14:34:54Z")

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Hey folks,

I was a student designer circa action script 2 times, and I’ve grown quite comfortable with it. I was hesitant to switch over, but part of our jobs is staying up with the current technologies.

I’m working on action script 3, and it is quite a new experience to say the least.

I was working on making a loading bar for my portfolio website, which can be seen here  
[http://www.colorblinddesigner.com](http://www.colorblinddesigner.com)

I read a tutorial, the coding made sense to me. I created a seperate .swf that plays while my main movie loads.

what was not explained was, when implementing via dreamweaver, what to do. I have two .swf’s, one loadbar swf and the main swf. How do I go about linking the two .swf’s so they work in unison? thanks for any advice