# FMX help - external swf photo gallery loaded to full website

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-help-external-swf-photo-gallery-loaded-to-full-website/14032>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 21, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-help-external-swf-photo-gallery-loaded-to-full-website/14032 "2003-02-21T05:15:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![mousey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@mousey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mousey)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-help-external-swf-photo-gallery-loaded-to-full-website/14032/1 "2003-02-21T05:15:44Z")

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Hi I’ve used the basic ideas of full flash site and photo gallery tute (which loads images from an external file). Now, when I load the photo gallery swf page into full site (tute) only the peacock photo comes up without any mask or arrow buttons. Why is this happening? Do I have to do something different, when images are loaded from an external file?

I Clicked on Portfolio button and right clicking on it to get action panel and pasting in the following (the pg7.swf is the final full photo gallery tute which shows animal photos in a masked frame)

on (release) {  
\_root.contents.loadMovie(“pg7.swf”);  
}

Can you help?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-help-external-swf-photo-gallery-loaded-to-full-website/14032/2 "2003-02-21T10:03:04Z")

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I had exactly the same problem with exactly the same swf. The problem is due to the fact that the tutorial uses releative rather than absolute paths to find the pictures which get messed up when the swf is loaded into a movie. I spent a while messing around with the code, trying to get it to work. In the end I just put the gallery code directly into my movie and it worked fine.

Hope this helps,

Biscuit.😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-help-external-swf-photo-gallery-loaded-to-full-website/14032/3 "2003-02-24T01:55:07Z")

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thanks, I’ll have a go!