# Hello everybody

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hello-everybody/13581>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [February 14, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hello-everybody/13581 "2003-02-14T22:53:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![geradito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@geradito](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geradito)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hello-everybody/13581/1 "2003-02-14T22:53:39Z")

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:crazy: Hello everybody I’m pretty much new here I hope somebody would give me a hand a big one I think.

I’m working on a project, and I got into something that well I can’t figure it out myself. From one main movie, I’m calling a movie, put it into a target (everything goes fine here), then when I call the movie everithing goes fine but the elements inside the movie don’t respond I’ll tell you how it works. The loaded movie, has a movie clip that plays a few others clips in the main time line. When this movie get loaded into the main movie I mentioned above these few clips don’t work, I see the movie getting loaded but these few clips don’t work.  
Well hope somebody can give me a hand I’ll really apreciate it.  
Thank 🙂

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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 14, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hello-everybody/13581/2 "2003-02-14T22:59:42Z")

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You probably target them as \_root.

One important thing about using loadMovie to load in external .swfs is that the \_root timeline of the loaded movie becomes the \_root timeline of the movie you are loading into.

So if any of your code says something like…

\_root.yourClip.something you should change it to

\_parent.yourClip.something  
or  
this.yourClip.something  
or just  
yourClip.something

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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 14, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hello-everybody/13581/3 "2003-02-14T23:36:01Z")

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another possibility is to target levels (\_level1, etc.). sometimes this is less confusing than using \_root. or \_parent. etc.

also, take a look at the debugger when you test your movie–it’ll show you your instance names along with their path–it may help you figure out where your naming went wrong…  
suerte,  
-mojo