preloaders for dynamically loading jpg files

[Maga Dawg]

does anyone know of what code I would need to use if i wanted a message like "Wait a minute, file is Loading..." displayed in a movie called text, before a jpeg called -"blood.jpg" is displayed in that same "text" movie.

[tomlaw3]

What exactly are you looking for? The necessary code to load the JPEG dynamicly or how to make a preloader?

[Maga Dawg]

the code is what I'm looking for

[tomlaw3]

In your local Flash help, if you look at:
C:\Program%20Files\Macromedia\Flash%20MX\Help\Flas h\html\30_asd_06_g_to_l51.html

it will show you loadMovie. That will do it. Now, creating a test to see if that JPEG is loading (which sounds like what you are reall after), is as simple as creating a two-frame movie clip (with one key frame) that checks the width of the movie that you load the JPEG into. Checking the size is somewhat unpredictable. So, you have this tester MC looping and then when it detects that the MC with the JPEG in it is >0 or whatever you tell it to look for, it can go to the next frame, where you do something with that JPEG.