Hi. I need a bit of help with a preloader I'm working on. Here's the
situation: I have 20 swf files that were given to me that I need to package
into one larger flash movie. These 20 files are rather large in size (150kb to
600kb) so I want to make each of them preload when they are called for. The
general idea is a user clicks on link 1 and it loads that movie and plays it.
They can then click on link 6 and it then loads that movie and plays it. Can
anyone assist me, or point me in the direction of a suitable template to
follow? I'm so new to this that it's scary.

Tom

preloaders are tricky when you are first starting. You can use this code to
load into levels or to load a single movie just leave out the
"createEmptyMovieClip("paper", 1);" and change function parameters.

This assumes your movies are named movie1.swf..........movie20.swf
and your buttons or links are btn1....btn20
//dynamic textfield on the same timeline - percent_txt

assessLoad = function (clip) {
var kbLoaded = Math.floor(clip.getBytesLoaded()/1024);
var kbTotal = Math.floor(clip.getBytesTotal()/1024);
percent = kbLoaded/kbTotal;
percent_txt.text = Math.floor(percent*100)+"%";
if ((kbLoaded == kbTotal) && kbTotal>1) {
endPreload(clip);
}
};
endPreload = function (clip) {
clearInterval(preload);
};
createEmptyMovieClip("paper", 1);
for (i=1; i<21; i++) {
_root["btn"+i].ivar = i;
_root["btn"+i].onPress = function() {
loadMovie("movie"+this.ivar+".swf", paper);
preload = setInterval(assessload, 50, paper);
};
}