Let me explain the situation. I have a vast map that comes in as a loaded swf. It's only about 120k so not that heavy. I have some script that tell it to go to a certain x/y position after it has loaded. All is well.

I did put a preloaded in with the movie. As the map is 3000X2000 in size I placed the preloaded up in the top left had corner. You see a few moments of the preloader then all it rushed to the x/y position which is miles away from the top left hand corner. Not very professional in look.

Is there anyway of having a preloader on the base movie (the one that is loading the swf map), that indicates the progress of the download movie. And just maybe for the preloader to wait a couple of seconds after the movie has loaded to avoid the awful rush across the screen.

with thanks

Brian