# Communicating with the main swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-with-the-main-swf/330184>\
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**Created:** [December 11, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-with-the-main-swf/330184 "2012-12-11T15:23:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![capdetrons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@capdetrons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/capdetrons)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicating-with-the-main-swf/330184/1 "2012-12-11T15:23:51Z")

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Hi,

I’ve got a movie loading a swf and I’d like to code the loaded move so that it runs a function on the loading movie’s main timeline on loading. How do you access the main movie’s timeline?