# External .swf

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swf/240921
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 8, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swf/240921 "2007-10-08T11:02:16Z")
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### Author: ![L2Aeos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@L2Aeos](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/L2Aeos)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swf/240921/1 "2007-10-08T11:02:16Z")

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Hello. Here’s what I want to do.

I have a “main.fla”, and an “inside.fla”.

I want to put the “inside.fla” (with a preloader), inside “main.fla”, but I also want to use the buttons, actions I create in “inside.fla”.  
I tried doing this with loadMovie(), but this doesn’t help, as it just loads the movie into a target, and I can’t use any of its controls.

How can I do this? Is there an easier way to do this? My website will contain a lot of picture sections, and I don’t want it to take long to load. That is my goal.  
Any tutorial links on how to do this are also appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help. =)