Preloading Multiple External Swfs

[Adil Bamanbehram]

hi there,
i seem to be having a small problem in preloading external swfs. i have a
main flash file(main.swf) which is a slideshow of 8 external swfs (1,2,3,4
etc).

if the file is not loaded (or not in cache) it therefore loads the external
swf. thats fine in a way.. but this is unwanted..

i have tried to use the Loadmovie with Target syntax and load the external
swf movies in a hidden movieclip named "preload". so in otherwords i have
copy pasted the Loadmovie tag 8 times, specifying the respective 8 movie
clip names.
loadMovie ("1.swf", "/preload");
loadMovie ("2.swf", "/preload");
loadMovie ("3.swf", "/preload"); ....................
............ loadMovie ("8.swf", "/preload");

now what happens is.. it doesnt preload all the 8 movies.. it only preloads
the last 8th movie as it is the last Loadmovie tag mentioned in the
actionscript. i fail to understand why it doesnt preload the first 7 movies
when i have given the syntax for it to load the movies.

Please help asap as to how, can i surely achieve the preloading of all/any
'n' numbers of external swfs.

thanx

[Peter Blumenthal]

It will load all 8 movies, but you can only have one movie loaded into a
clip at any time, so each of the previous movies will be replaced by the
next one to load. that's why you are left with the final movie.
You need to create 8 seperate clips, and load the swf's into one each. If
you call them preload1, preload2...preload8, then do something like

for (var i=1; i<=8; i++){
loadMovie(i+".swf", _root["preload"+i]);
}

that should sort it.

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