# About external loading

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-external-loading/213098>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 16, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-external-loading/213098 "2007-01-16T22:36:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![martinjknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@martinjknight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/martinjknight)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-external-loading/213098/1 "2007-01-16T22:36:08Z")

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I’ve realised that when I externally loaded a swf into my main movie, the actions diddn’t work for it.

I used the drawing board tutorial as the external movie, is there a way I could get it to work?

Thanks.