# External SWFs issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swfs-issue/306642>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 18, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swfs-issue/306642 "2010-03-18T21:10:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![edward\_338](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6de8d8/32.png) [@edward\_338](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/edward_338)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swfs-issue/306642/1 "2010-03-18T21:10:13Z")

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Apologies for the multiple posts, but I keep figuring out better ways to ask the same question and I think I might be getting closer to what the actual problem is:

I’m building a portfolio in ActionScript 3, and some of the portfolio pieces are SWFs built in ActionScript 2 created by someone other than myself (I just did the artwork). It’s a series of 8 different SWFs (although for now I’m just trying to get 2 to work) I load the first SWF and it plays just fine. Any attempt to swap that SWF with another one of these SWFs results in a distorted playback of the new SWF. Animations don’t trigger or they trigger out of sequence. Is it possible that the first loaded SWF leaves behind a set of objects, properties and variables that the following SWFs are still referencing, like a timer or something? Am I on the right track? Could that be possible?

If so, is there a way to purge any reference or trail of the previously loaded SWF?

I’ve tried unload() and removeChild(), but even with these, any attempt to load a 2nd SWF after the first one has loaded results in a messed up playback of that newly loaded SWF.

Thanks for any help with this.

I’ve attached the FLA and the SWFs.

**Here’s what my code looks like right now:**

var clipLoader:Loader = new Loader();  
var url:String = “ad1.swf”;  
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);  
var url2:String = “ad2.swf”;  
var urlReq2:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url2);

clipLoader.load(urlReq);  
addChild(clipLoader);

button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, resetClip);

function resetClip(event:MouseEvent):void {  
clipLoader.load(urlReq2);  
}