# Conflicting timeline problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/conflicting-timeline-problem/59172>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 29, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/conflicting-timeline-problem/59172 "2004-07-29T01:26:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![neiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@neiro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/neiro)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/conflicting-timeline-problem/59172/1 "2004-07-29T01:26:46Z")

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I have one swf called main.swf which has a container movieclip that gets external swf’s loaded into it.

my external swf is called hosting and it calls an array of data that is loaded into a movieclip that is duplicate for each element from the database. The elements from the database are as follows:

Business  
Economy  
Power  
Standard

Each one of these has a button over it that when press loads information from the database into a movieclip that contains a textbox. My button code is:

\_root.movieclip.loadVariables(“url to database”);

This works flawlessly when I run the hosting.swf by itself, but when it is loaded into the contianer in the main.swf the buttons dont work.

I believe that it is the \_root in the button call that is causing this but I dont know how to fix it. I think the \_root variable changes when hosting is loaded into the main.swf.

Can someone help me please.

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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:** [July 29, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/conflicting-timeline-problem/59172/2 "2004-07-29T02:14:41Z")

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post the .fla please.