# \_lockroot not working!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-lockroot-not-working/187194
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 27, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-lockroot-not-working/187194 "2006-04-27T10:12:12Z")
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### Author: ![prada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@prada](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prada)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-lockroot-not-working/187194/1 "2006-04-27T10:12:12Z")

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Hi  
am using the DateField component in my movie dateField.swf. I am loading this movie into an empty movieclip in my master.swf. When I run master .swf the DateField component (residing in the loaded in dateField.swf) doesn’t work properly! The dateChooser automatically opens up, which is good but when the dateChooser closes after I chose a date I can’t open it up again! When I run dateField.swf on its own everything works as it should. And I have the DateField component also in both libraries. I have used the following code in the master.fla but to no avail!

empty\_mc.loadMovie(“dateField.swf”);//this works fine  
empty\_mc.\_lockroot = true;

can anyone help?:jail: