flash actionscript: Can I find out what the totalframes are of an external swf that I have loaded
into my "parent" movie?

I'm trying to create a progress indicator that plays the length of each new
external swf I load into my "parent" movie.

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks!

if you used loadMovie() to load your external swf, reference the target movie
clip's _totalframes property AFTER loading has started. for example:

targetMC.loadMovie("yourswf.swf");
testI=setInterval(testF,100);
function testF(){
if(targetMC.getBytesLoaded()>0){
clearInterval(testI);
yourTotalFrames=targetMC._totalframes;
}
}