# attachMovie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attachmovie/30642>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 11, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attachmovie/30642 "2003-09-11T17:32:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![jtax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@jtax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jtax)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attachmovie/30642/1 "2003-09-11T17:32:47Z")

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I’m having couple of problems with attachMovie.

I’m making an interface with buttons (or links).

I want on top of the button a text anim that i’ve created on another .fla file ( called textanim1 ).

I imported to library the textanim1.swf and named the linkage “ta”.

I want to attach that movie a couple of times on multiple buttons with different names( profile, about, etc… )

so i did:

initialization = { s\_Message:“Profile” }; // s\_Message is  
// a variable in textanim1.fla.

\_root.attachMovie( “ta”, “Profile”, \_root.getDepth, initialization );

First problem: the text animation isn’t animated. It’s stuck on the first frame it seems.

Second problem: the word “Profile” isn’t written.

I’m guessing i’m not initializing the variables right. Can anyone help? thanks.

Jtax