# Container communication

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/container-communication/229480>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 17, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/container-communication/229480 "2007-06-17T21:56:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kukorica](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kukorica/32/3527_2.png) [@Kukorica](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kukorica)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/container-communication/229480/1 "2007-06-17T21:56:06Z")

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Hello everyone, I am having trouble with something I hope some flash wizards out there can give me a hand.

Is it possible for an external swf to communicate with the main swf?

Lets say I have a main swf where i have an movieclip playing (lets call is ball\_mc) and a container mc and a button to load an external swf. The external swf is a looping movieclip, and somewhere on this timeline i have an actionscript to tell the “main” swf’s ball\_mc to stop playing. Now i press the button to load the external swf and it starts playing and when it reaches its actionscript part, the ball stops animating.

This was just a stupid example but i hope you get the idea.

I tried with the \_root.ball\_mc = stop(); but it doesnt do anything.

Any ideas how i can communicate with the two swfs?