# Communicating between movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 30, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719 "2003-04-30T21:15:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sanman918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@sanman918](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sanman918)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719/1 "2003-04-30T21:15:32Z")

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Is there anyway that I can communicate between 2 movies by variables. Such as, let’s say I have a movie called movie1.swf and in it is a variable called “volume”. I load movie1.swf into movie2.swf, can I control the variable “volume” from a button or actionscript in movie2.swf?

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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:** [April 30, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719/2 "2003-04-30T21:33:08Z")

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Check this out…

[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/java\_script\_comm.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/java_script_comm.htm)

TD

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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:** [April 30, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719/3 "2003-04-30T21:38:56Z")

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That is between java and flash, I just want to be able to control flash variables through other flash files. I’m not sure if i can do it with a loadmovie. Does anyone know if its possible to control a variable through a load movie?

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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:** [April 30, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719/4 "2003-04-30T21:41:19Z")

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Further reading down the page would have led you to this link.

[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash\_to\_flash\_comm.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash_to_flash_comm.htm)

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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:** [April 30, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-between-movies/19719/5 "2003-04-30T22:00:30Z")

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Thanks, I think this will work for what I need 🙂