# Are my layers wrong, or...?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/are-my-layers-wrong-or/147623>\
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**Created:** [May 12, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/are-my-layers-wrong-or/147623 "2005-05-12T07:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sfendless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sfendless](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sfendless)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/are-my-layers-wrong-or/147623/1 "2005-05-12T07:35:06Z")

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Having a problem that should be simple but is hanging me up. I’ll try to make this simple as possible…

The files:  
main.swf (basic level 0 movie)  
navbar.swf (loads into level 2 of main.swf with ‘loadMovie’ AS)  
prettypictures.swf (loads into level 1 from button in navbar.swf)  
flower.swf (loads into level 3 from button in prettypictures.swf)

‘flower’ loads into a frame of ‘prettypictures’ like this:

this.createEmptyMovieClip(“flower”, 3);  
with (flower){  
\_x=50;  
\_y=50;  
}  
loadMovie(“flower.swf”, flower);

The question: how can I control the timeline of ‘navbar’ from a button on ‘flower’? I’ve tried a few different methods but nothing does the trick. I can control clips in most situations using ‘\_root.instance.’ commands but that doesn’t seem to work here.

I feel this is probably pretty simple but assistance for this would be a big help… thanks!