# Getting variable data from a loaded movieClip

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**Created:** [February 25, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-variable-data-from-a-loaded-movieclip/102582 "2004-02-25T03:29:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-variable-data-from-a-loaded-movieclip/102582/1 "2004-02-25T03:29:54Z")

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I am having a brain meltdown and for the life of me can’t remember how to do this…

I have loaded an .swf into a empty movie clip

i.e.  
container.loadMovie(“content.swf”);

I am wanting to get the width of the clip being loaded, but whenever I call container.\_width, I get 0.

So, I populated a variable within content.swf that has the width, but I can’t remember how to get the value out of it.

Is there a simpler way from the timeline just to simply get the width of the loaded clip?