# Baffled \_root

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/baffled--root/23581>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/baffled--root/23581 "2003-06-19T20:01:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/baffled--root/23581/1 "2003-06-19T20:01:35Z")

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i used your tutorial on how to build a full flash site, on  
(release) {  
\_root.contents.loadMovie(“video.swf”);  
}

the site will bring in the pages correctly, but now my ploblem is, i am using the same command, on one of the individual pages, to call in a video. i set up the contents movie clip in the middle of the video.swf page, so it is loaded when you click a button. everything works okay, until i am viewing the site as a whole, then when i click the link to the video page, and click the button, the movie loads in the upper left hand corner. i tried renaming the contents movie clip on the video.swf file, to vcontents, so the code would look like

on (release) {  
\_root.vcontents.loadMovie(“anthemnick.swf”);  
}

it would work on the video .swf page when i was previewing it alone, but when i opened the site, clicked to the video page, then tried to view the video, it wouldn’t load in…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/baffled--root/23581/2 "2003-06-19T20:10:31Z")

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The \_root timeline is the very first timeline in the hierarchy.

So when you load a movie into another movie, that hierachy changes thus making the first timeline of the main movie the \_root timeline.

So if you clip isn’t in the main movie then don’t target that 😉

Try just vcontents.loadMovie().

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/baffled--root/23581/3 "2003-06-19T20:29:47Z")

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wow, so simple, but so complex, thanks betaman…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/baffled--root/23581/4 "2003-06-19T20:30:45Z")

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No problem, glad to help 🙂