### Author:  [@time2design](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/time2design)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/1 "2003-01-17T15:37:14Z")
I’m pulling my hair out on this one.
Here’s the fla if you can help:
[http://www.argoncreative.com/test/testpreloader.fla](http://www.argoncreative.com/test/testpreloader.fla)
The movie has a preloader in frame 1 but the movie just plays through ignoring the conditions of the preloader.
☹
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t2d
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/2 "2003-01-17T15:49:20Z")
I was unable to download the fla but do you have a stop command in the first frame at the beginning of the code??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/3 "2003-01-17T15:57:35Z")
(If you right click and “save target as” and choose “all files” instead of html files and change the “.html” extension to “.fla” it will work.)
I tried it both with and without a stop. I’m assuming there usually should be one in the parent movie?
If I do the movie with a stop in the first frame of the parent movie, the PRELOADER just sits at frame one and nothing happens.
t2d:angry:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/4 "2003-01-17T16:58:09Z")
Can anyone help, please?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/5 "2003-01-17T18:32:09Z")
Sorry man I was asking a friend here and got side tracked. I am still trying to get it, that preloader is weird to me it seems to be loading itself. BUt I am no expert you will get an answer before I get one. DId you use a component??? Because I know of a better one.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/6 "2003-01-17T18:35:26Z")
No, it’s a strange preloader, I know, but I can’t see why it would interfere with anything. I made it up because some of the regular scripts I was trying (like \_framesloaded == \_totalframes) wasn’t working for some reason.
I’m open to any suggestions if you don’t like the way it’s programmed.
I just want to show my client how long this is taking to load (which is why I wanted a preloader WITH a loading bar).
Thanks VERY much for your help!!! I’ll be looking forward to your answer.
t2dC:-)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/7 "2003-01-17T18:48:50Z")
This preloader I use for these situations where you just wanna a quick loader.
[http://www.flashcomponents.net/component.cfm?nav=2&id=42](http://www.flashcomponents.net/component.cfm?nav=2&id=42)
Also there is a very good tutorial here on the board
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/8 "2003-01-17T18:52:21Z")
Somtimes Flash ignores the first frame of a timeline.
Try moving your as to frame 2…
By general rule, dont put any AS in the first frame of any timeline.
Let me know if it helped.
=V=
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/9 "2003-01-17T21:19:57Z")
Thanks folks.
I can’t use a preloader component though because the client wants this for Flash 5 as well.
Valor, there is no AS in frame 1 of the movie nor the preloader movie.
Grrr…
Can anyone figure out why this file is doing this???
t2d
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-preloader-stop-movie/11467/10 "2003-01-18T04:57:36Z")
1. The link in the first post doesn’t work, I get a page full of Gibberish.
2. The preloader component sucks anyway
3. From the gibberish I could make out that you are using the \_framesloaded method of preloading. I don’t like this method of preloading.
There are at least 3 preloader tutorials on this site along you can use (Disreguarding the preloader component tutorial), all with better methods than the \_framesloaded method.