# \_global functions from external swfs

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-global-functions-from-external-swfs/230352>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 25, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-global-functions-from-external-swfs/230352 "2007-06-25T15:50:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dewey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dewey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dewey)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-global-functions-from-external-swfs/230352/1 "2007-06-25T15:50:40Z")

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hey everyone.

i have a dilly of a pickle (thank you ned flanders) that i cannot figure out for the life of me.

currently i am loading in a movie clip from a location online. that much works fine, however, in this external movieclip, it is making a \_global function call to some code i have in my main swf which this clip is being loaded into.

if i take the swf and load it onto my machine and just call it from my own machine (ie/ mClipLoader.loadClip(“file.swf”, filePlace) instead of mClipLoader.loadClip(“[http://www.wherever.com/assets/](http://www.wherever.com/assets/) **RANDOM FILE PATH** /file.swf”, filePlace)) then the thing not only looks like it is working, but it will actually call my global functions… is there anything that would be causing this? Or perhaps if I uploaded it to their server it may work fine? (just thought of that now as I was typing… I am going to try it after I post this)

anyways, just let me know if you guys know anything.

thank you,

–d