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Tutorial - Preload External Flash Movies with Movie Clips

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Step Three: The Actions - Frame 1

1. Select Frame 1 of the Layer: ActionScript
2. Add this code (if you wish leave out the gray comments):
   
   // Create a new Object. The Progress Bar is an object so needs an object function to work
   myProgressBarListener = new Object();
   
   /* Create a listener object event function. When the Progress Bar is complete and has preloaded this Movie, the listener will call and run this code below:   */
   myProgressBarListener = function (eventObject) {
   
   // Hide the Progress Bar - we don’t need it any more as the Movie has now loaded
   myProgressBar._visible = false;
   
   // Remove the listener
   myProgressBar.removeEventListener("complete", myProgressBarListener);
   
   // Ends the function
   };
   
   // Declares a listener. This detects when the Progress Component has loaded the Movie. Then when the preloading is complete it calls the function myProgressBarListener
   myProgressBar.addEventListener("complete", myProgressBarListener);
   
   // Set up the Progress Bar Component to polled when loading the Movie. This will give a polled look to the Progress Bar as it loads. It has to be set to polled to work
   myProgressBar.mode = "polled";
   
   // Set the location to load as this Movie.
   myProgressBar.source = "_root";