Preload a load movie

Hello,
Basically I am creating a small image gallery which allows
the user to flick through images.
The images i have are orientated in different ways, some are
landscape and some are portrait. Some are larger or smaller than
others as well. Because of the differences in the size and layout i
am wanting to be able to handle each size differently, depending on
its "_height" and "_width" properties.
At the moment when i detect the height or width properties of
the image_mc movieclip using either:
trace(image_mc._height);
or
trace(image_mc._width);
I am not getting any properties for the first image and when
the second image loads the properties from the first image are fed
back to me.
I understand that the properties are probably not going to be
available as the code moves on quicker than the image loads.
What i am wondering is, is there a way of preloading an image
into a movie clip using the loadMovie function and then making the
code hang up until the image has loaded into the movie clip which i
have named "image_mc"? so that i can get the height and width
properties, so i can position and display the currently loaded
image correctly.
If this cannot be done with loadMovie, would it be possible
for you to suggest a better alternative for me please?
There is only one thing i need to keep. the images must be
loaded from an external file.
Thanks, i have attached my current code, its very basic but
it might help you understand what i have tried to explain.
thank you and any help will be greatly appreciated
thank you
Lee
PS. I am using AS2.0

you can use listeners instead. For example:

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mfos wrote:
> Hi.
> I have a preloader on the first frame of my movie
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"DaveCunningham" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Hi,
>
> I'm sure this is a dead simple question, but I'm not
sure about syntax.
> Basically I have several buttons which when pressed load
a new swf into a movie
> clip _root. I want each different button to take the
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> frame in the loaded movie. So button 2, would open the
new swf at frame 1,
> button 2, would open the new swf at frame 2, etc.
>
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>
> on (release) {
> _root.bigphoto.loadMovie("big photos.swf");
> }
>
> What should I add to it?
>
> Many thanks.
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