Preloading External SWF's

[ninebar69]

Hi All,

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

I have a main SWF that uses a preloader (no problem) once loaded I then use loadmovie to load external SWF's into empty movieclips once the use has clicked on a button (which work fine) except the preloaders which are coded into the ecternal SWF's don't seem to work.

The preload code in all the SWF's is identical and I don't know if thats the problem. The main (root) SWF addresses the bytesloaded as this

loadedFrames = _root._framesloaded;


I'm currently thinking along the lines that the loaded external movieclips are in fact child movies of the main SWF therefore the above code will be checking to see if the main SWF has loaded and not itself (the externally loaded SWF). Should I be using

loadedFrames = _this._framesloaded;

to check the bytesloaded for the externally loaded SWF's or I'm I totally off the map here?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

;-)