# Help loading swf /how to debug

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-swf-how-to-debug/166174>\
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**Created:** [October 17, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-swf-how-to-debug/166174 "2005-10-17T20:38:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-swf-how-to-debug/166174/1 "2005-10-17T20:38:23Z")

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Hello.I am really stuck. I am having a great deal of trouble getting a movie to load in an empty movie clip. I am hoping I’m missing something simple.

I have a button with the instance name SPS\_btn on a layer I’ve called buttons.  
Below the button layer i’ve got a layer called movie clips that contains an emptymovie clip called mainStage\_mc. I want to load a .swf into into mainStage\_mc. both the buttons and their actions occur on the first frame.

I have used this code but it not working.  
**on (release) {loadMovie (new002.swf, mainStage\_mc);**  
I just get a blue area but the movie does not load. I can run the movie fun locally by clicking on new002.swf file.

i also tried the behaviors panel,  
which produces this code but it also doesn’t work:

**on (release) {loadMovie (“new002.swf”,mainStage\_mc);**

//load Movie Behavior  
**if(this.mainStage\_mc == Number(this.mainStage\_mc)){  
loadMovieNum(“new002.swf”,this.mainStage\_mc);  
} else {  
this.mainStage\_mc.loadMovie(“new002.swf”);  
}**  
//End Behavior  
}

for some reason it will load if i use loadMovieNum () but the registration point is in the top right corner and i don’t want that.

What’s the best way to debug this?  
When i use test movie the output window dosen’t show an error but something’s wrong.  
how can I test if is a path problem? A problem with the loaded movie?  
or a problem with something else?

the movie new002.swf is 393KB. I tired making a smaller 2kbmovie using the code above and it wouldn’t load either.  
Can someone shed some light on this?