# Flash loadMovie question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386>\
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**Created:** [May 8, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386 "2003-05-08T05:31:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeyyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jeyyu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jeyyu)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386/1 "2003-05-08T05:31:17Z")

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Hi Guys:  
I have a question regarding loadmovie(). i followed Kirupa’s tutorial on LoadmovieNum and it works. but I wanted to know why it doesn’t work when I create a movieclip called mov and then try to call the movie using mov.loadMovie(“something.swf”);

another question is can I open up images inside a movieclip? ie. loadMovieNum(pic1.png,level);

Thanks for your answers.

Kirupa is an awesome site!!. it is a permanent bookmark on my flash list. thanks.

Jay.

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**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386/2 "2003-05-08T05:39:33Z")

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Make sure that your “somethig.swf” is in the same directory as ur main movie.

Hope it helps.

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**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386/3 "2003-05-08T05:40:59Z")

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and… of course you can open up images inside a movieclip!

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**Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386/4 "2003-05-08T05:51:28Z")

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> _Originally posted by rvanet_  
> **Make sure that your “somethig.swf” is in the same directory as ur main movie.**

the instance name of the MovieClip could be wrong too…

> _Originally posted by rvanet_  
> **and… of course you can open up images inside a movieclip!**

you only can load non progressive .jpg’s dynamically.  
therefore, pic1.png won’t be loaded into the MovieClip/level. :-\

and welcome to kirupa forum, jeyyu!! =)

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386/5 "2003-05-09T18:26:33Z")

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Hi Guys:  
Thanks for your help. I figured out why the mov.loadMovie wasn’t working. I was crating a moving clip with the name mov but i wasn’t giving the instance a name, so when i was trying to do mov.loadMovie( , ,), it wasn’t really referring to anything, when i gave the instance a name and use the instance.loadMovie, it worked fine

and thanks for the tip on the Jpg .

Jeyyu.

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loadmovie-question/20386/6 "2003-05-09T18:30:42Z")

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😛

no problem, jeyyu. =)