# Calling linkage identifiers from other movies or shared libraries?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-linkage-identifiers-from-other-movies-or-shared-libraries/127689 "2004-11-05T04:24:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Rygiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kent\_Rygiel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kent_Rygiel)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-linkage-identifiers-from-other-movies-or-shared-libraries/127689/1 "2004-11-05T04:24:24Z")

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I’ve been working at this problem for a while so let me cut right to the chase. I have designed a site with a photgallery of lots of high res images.

Okay, so inspired by the Peter Funch site, I knew I wanted a dynamic masking effect, so I use attachmove and attachmask, and pull the images from my library using their linkage identifiers.

Everything is good, but I can’t load all of the images up front. The wait would be too big. So what I am doing now is loading a second swf into an empty clip/slug. In that second swf (movie 2) that is in a slug i now attach more movies using movie 2s library.

I just get the feeling that I am doing this very clumsily and in fact after a while things start working less smoothly, even though I am removing clips as I go.

So my questions are these:

1. Is it smart to use a shared library, instead of loading clips onto the root of my movie and having them sit there. Will this prevent my movie from becoming clumsy?
2. Suppose I go to a library item’s identifier and export for actionscript. Let’s call this movie movie 1. If I have movie 2 and in movie 2 I load movie 1 (loadMove(“movie1”…), are movie 1s library items available to movie 2?
3. Does anyone know of a tutorial on loading a movie in stages, and working with linkage property names across these multiple movies.

The site I am trying to improve is [http://www.jennifermorton.com](http://www.jennifermorton.com)

Any strategies would be appreciated.

Thanks,  
Kent Rygiel