# Complex problem with loadMovie -Urgent help require please
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563
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**Created:** [July 14, 2004, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563 "2004-07-14T09:39:48Z")
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### Author:  [@darkstyle](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/darkstyle)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563/1 "2004-07-14T09:39:48Z")
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Complex prolem on loadMovie[/font][/size][/left]
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]I am facing a complex problem on loading a movie clip into another movie clip[/font][/size]
[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Elaborated. [/font][/size]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]I have a main.swf file and a web.swf file… Now my problem is not loading a movie clip into another move clip but problem in targeting. [/font][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]In my main.swf on the button I wrote a small AS. [/font][/size][/left]
on (realease) {
[left]loadMovie (“web.swf”,"\_root.container");[/left]
[left]}[/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Well that helps me to load the movie… [/font][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]And[/font][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]In web.swf file I have cupple of buttons [/font][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]And on each button I have some AS. Such as [/font][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]On btn 1. [/font][/size][/left]
[left] [/left]
[left]on (realease) { [/left]
[left]loadMovie (“software.swf”,"\_root.loadmovie"); [/left]
[left]}[/left]
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[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]On btn 2. [/font][/size][/left]
[left]on (realease) { [/left]
[left]loadMovie (“ebuseness.swf”,"\_root.loadmovie");[/left]
[left]}[/left]
[left] [/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]The main problem me facing is with the main.swf. its load the web.swf properly but after loading the movie the web.swf doesn’t work . each time I click on button its gives the following error[/font][/size][/left]
[left] [/left]
[left]Target not found: Target="\_root.loadmovie" Base="\_level0.load.movie.instance30.instance31"[/left]
[left] [/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]But by itself web.swf is working properly[/font][/size][/left]
[left][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Please help[/font][/size][/left]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563/2 "2004-07-14T12:33:30Z")
Sounds to me like your trying to control the main movie from within the external movie. If your trying to load external movies into a container clip thats fine, but you need to have the buttons to load other external swfs into this clip on the main movie, not the external movie.
Regards,
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563/3 "2004-07-14T13:19:47Z")
> [@Fraggs](#):
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> Sounds to me like your trying to control the main movie from within the external movie. If your trying to load external movies into a container clip thats fine, but you need to have the buttons to load other external swfs into this clip on the main movie, not the external movie.
>
> Regards,
No dude, i am trying control the external movie from the main movie but its seems that \_root command doesnt work on external movie clip. the main movie load the external movie ( that works fine ). External movie work itself fine too… but the external also have load another external movie there goes the problem
☹ . it doest work on main.swf and give error output
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563/4 "2004-07-14T14:31:24Z")
take a look at this:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-problem-with-loadmovie-urgent-help-require-please/57563/5 "2004-07-14T21:54:11Z")
> [@macneilslt](#):
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> take a look at this:
thank you dude. thats wat exartly i was lookin for 🙂