# Change background from external movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-background-from-external-movie-clip/213564
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 20, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-background-from-external-movie-clip/213564 "2007-01-20T22:49:23Z")
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### Author: ![CiNo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@CiNo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CiNo)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/change-background-from-external-movie-clip/213564/1 "2007-01-20T22:49:23Z")

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Hi all ^^

i have a little problem.  
i’m making an all flash website, there’s a main swf (the web page), with all the content, a Background and Buttons . from this swf, i load an other one, externaly. it contains a menu, with four buttons. (here’s the action script)

```auto

// Create a Movie Clip to load the swf Movie into
this.createEmptyMovieClip("myExternallyLoadedSWFMovieHolder", 0);

// A variable to hold the name and location of where the external swf Movie is located
var myVariable = "web_menu.swf";

// Set the Movie's location on the Stage
myExternallyLoadedSWFMovieHolder._x = 400;
myExternallyLoadedSWFMovieHolder._y = 0;

loadMovie(_root.myVariable, _root.myExternallyLoadedSWFMovieHolder);

```

each button of the menu is supposed to refer to the “skin” of the main page. by “skin” i mean the Background and the Buttons.

is there a way to do that, keeping the two movies sperate?  
will i have to remake the menu inside the main movie? and then how will it work?

thank you for helping me, i hope i was clear in my explanations.

edit : here’s the link to the page : [http://cinozarts.free.fr](http://cinozarts.free.fr)

the menu is the turning symbols upside, i want them to change the global background, and the shape of the buttons.