# Can you make modular swfs talk to each other?

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**Created:** [September 20, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-make-modular-swfs-talk-to-each-other/239367 "2007-09-20T23:12:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-make-modular-swfs-talk-to-each-other/239367/1 "2007-09-20T23:12:00Z")

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Can you control the timelines, scale, rotation, dynamic content etc of separate modular swfs which are connected through /embedded within another swf? or are their actions sealed away, deaf from each other? For example if I made a menu a separate swf from the content it wants to control- would this not work?  
And if it does work, I assume it takes \_root -based actions to do so? I hope I make sense, my flash lingo can be sloppy sometimes

I know I went through this in a “intermediate flash” class I just took, but I’ve already forgotten. this doesn’t seem like an easy topic to search. If it does work then that’s very exciting!!