Preloader on the main SWF instead of a preloader in the child SWF

[cyberscience]

I'm loading a SWFs onto a main SWF. I know that the preloader from the tutes are made inside the child SWF. How do I make a preloader (what I mean is the bar and the dynamic textfield that shows percentage) IN the main SWF with the bytes from the child SWF.

[Jesse]

See the Flash 5 Preloader tutorial and the Paths tutorial. You just need to put the animation in the 'bar' clip on your main timeline, and change the paths in the preload script. Of course this will cause problems because you will have to put your looping-load-checking-code on a movieclip in order for it to continue to run while you jump around the main timeline. That's why we use a separate MC for the indicator bar.

[cyberscience]

How do i make the looping-load-checking-code ?

[Jesse]

That's the getBytesLoaded / total frame loop in the tutorial.