# \_root? \_parent?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root--parent/68505
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 26, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root--parent/68505 "2004-10-26T14:47:47Z")
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### Author: ![invisibleloop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@invisibleloop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/invisibleloop)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root--parent/68505/1 "2004-10-26T14:47:47Z")

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Please help! I have a movie and in that movie external movieclips are loaded into a container movieclip (i.e. kirupa tutorial) The buttons actionscript looks like this:

on (release) {  
if (\_root.currMovie == undefined) {  
\_root.currMovie = “about”;  
container.loadMovie(“about.swf”);  
} else if (\_root.currMovie != “about”) {  
if (container.\_currentframe\>=container.midframe) {  
\_root.currMovie = “about”;  
container.play();  
}  
}  
}

Within that external movieclip, another external movie clip is loaded into a container movieclip. Get me so far? So I mean the movies are loading into one another. I just need to know how to change the \_root part of the script to make the second moviclip work!! see below:

movie/  
container movieclip(button loads external movieclip here)/  
External movieclip/  
external container movieclip(button loads another external movieclip here)