# Button wont work when loaded as external swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-wont-work-when-loaded-as-external-swf/115362>\
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**Created:** [July 7, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-wont-work-when-loaded-as-external-swf/115362 "2004-07-07T23:10:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![wepeel81381](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/76d3ee/32.png) [@wepeel81381](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wepeel81381)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-wont-work-when-loaded-as-external-swf/115362/1 "2004-07-07T23:10:19Z")

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i am using Kirupa’s [Transitions Between External SWFs](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm) tutorial to design my site. One of the external swfs i am using has a pic scroller with thumbnails, but when a thumbnail is clicked, nothing happens. When I load the pic scroller movie by itself, it works fine.

check out these links to see what i am talking about…  
(only the first two thumbnails of pic scroller have actions)

[movie with transitions](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~pyl208/flash/complex2.3/newtransitions.html)

[pic scroller alone](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~pyl208/flash/complex2.3/pic_scroller.html)

The actionscript that is actually on the thumbnail button is:

on (release) {  
loadMovie(“detective.swf”, “\_root.content”);  
}

i am guessing there is something wrong with that \_root part? Also, you have to click on 4 movie clips before you actually get to the button, so that might be causing some problems.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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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:** [July 8, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-wont-work-when-loaded-as-external-swf/115362/2 "2004-07-08T02:04:44Z")

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hello wepeel81381…  
on (release) {  
loadMovie(“detective.swf”, “content”);  
}  
u no need a “\_root” since the movie clip is internal.  
Maybe u 1 ur movie load in the mc in the right place so u put “\_root” there.If that is the reason, u can try 2 write as :  
\_root.loadMovie(“detective.swf”, “content”);

Hope my reply can solve ur problem:bandit: