# Deperatly seeking help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deperatly-seeking-help/305325>\
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**Created:** [February 23, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deperatly-seeking-help/305325 "2010-02-23T15:28:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![glow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@glow](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glow)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deperatly-seeking-help/305325/1 "2010-02-23T15:28:40Z")

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Hi have this flash xml menu that loads external swf files like this:

```auto
<item title="ABOUT" content_path="http://mysite.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/about.swf" target="" mouse_rollover_color="0xFFFFFF" mouse_rollout_color="0xDDDDDD" />

```

and I have this swf file with cms that I’d like for this menu to load. Currently the swf file load external text using this code:

```auto
if (contenturl1 ne "") {
	loadVariablesNum(contenturl1 + "/" + userid + "/content.txt", 0);
} else {
	loadVariablesNum("content.txt", 0);
}

```

but when the xml menu loads this swf file its structure loads but not its data.

I tried using :

```auto
this._lockroot = true;

```

in the loading swf main time line but it did not work.

I should also mention that the dynamic data that loads onto the swf that is to be loaded by the menu, resides not in it main time line but 4 movie clips deep  
I don’t know if that makes a difference or not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I don’t know what else to do and I’ve been wrestling with this problem for a year now with no solution. my friend who is a really good flash coder says it can’t be done and I’m starting to believe that his right.

the file is action script 2.0