# How can I tell a external .swf to start playing?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-tell-a-external-swf-to-start-playing/95336
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**Created:** [November 24, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-tell-a-external-swf-to-start-playing/95336 "2003-11-24T12:30:55Z")
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### Author: ![yazzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58956e/32.png) [@yazzman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yazzman)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-tell-a-external-swf-to-start-playing/95336/1 "2003-11-24T12:30:55Z")

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Hi everybody!

I need help with telling a external movie(.swf file) to start play when I click  
on a button.

I have made a site in dreamweaver where the topframe is in flash and the  
middleframe in html and the bottomframe in flash.  
I have 2 buttons on the topframe and I want when I click on one of them the  
bottom flash file starts to play.

How do I do this??