# Controlling Attached Movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-attached-movies/135533>\
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**Created:** [January 28, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-attached-movies/135533 "2005-01-28T00:42:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![ellare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/919ad9/32.png) [@ellare](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ellare)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-attached-movies/135533/1 "2005-01-28T00:42:40Z")

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can you control an attached movie?

how do you script a button to control an attached movie clip?

i have content loading into a holder called hover\_mc.

i would like my pause, rewind and FFwd buttons to control the content that is also loaded into hover\_mc.

but the content that is loading into hover\_mc is loaded with attachMovie and it seems that the buttons can’t control “attached movies”…

i have tried things like  
on (release) {  
\_root.hover\_mc.gotoAndStop(\_root.hover\_mc.\_currentframe);  
}

running a trace shows that hover\_mc is in frame 1 - which is frame 1 of the main FLA. it cant read \_currentframe of what is being loaded INTO hover\_mc.

any ideas?