# Check this

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-this/12370>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 30, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-this/12370 "2003-01-30T11:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![blox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@blox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blox)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-this/12370/1 "2003-01-30T11:57:19Z")

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hi…

1-i use flash mx

2-i made 2 swf files : main.swf as a main menu : which containes : 3 categories ( a - b - c ).  
when we click on any of the 3 categories button it runs a movie clip  
[a\_mc] , [b\_mc] , [c\_mc]

using : tellTarget(\*\_mc){play();}

3-each movie clip contains a sub menu :

```
		[a_mc] : item1 - item2 - item3 / a categorie.	and so on...		

```

4-when we select any item it loads an external swf file:  
so if we select the first item in [a\_mc] it will runs : [item1/a.swf]

using : on (release) {  
loadMovie(“item1/a.swf”, 0);

}  
5-i use an external swf for each item because i want this swfto be 800x600 and the main movie  
is 800x 300 and also it will be better to control each swf Separately.

6-we have back button inside each external.swf file to retrun back to the sub menu: i use on (release) {  
loadMovie(“main.swf”, 0);  
}

```
		the back button in [item1/a.swf] must return back to the sub menu of [a_mc] and not to the main menu.

```

7-i don’t know how to call the [a\_mc] which it is inside main.swf from the external swf file [item1/a.swf]

8-i put now on the back button : loadmovie(“main.swf”,o) but this returns to the main menu and the client must go inside the [a categorie] using the [a\_mc]  
to select another item and so on for the rest of the categories and it’s sub item .

9-how can i call a movie clip which it is inside an swf from another swf file.??

10- i attached a simple source file demo of the .

thank you .

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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:** [January 30, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-this/12370/2 "2003-01-30T20:18:52Z")

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Hey

Do you think that my question is very difficult to answer ?

:stunned:

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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:** [January 31, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-this/12370/3 "2003-01-31T10:24:39Z")

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Instead of loading the second SWF on level0 load it at level1. The 2nd SWF will just cover the first since it is larger.

```auto

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("2.swf", 1);
}

```

The script on the button of the second SWF will have:

```auto

on (release) {
unloadMovie(1); //This remove the 2nd SWF thus bringing
                          //you back to the previous menu.
}

```

Hope this helps!

comicGeek