# Is it possible to load an external movie on an external movie?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-external-movie-on-an-external-movie/265176>\
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**Created:** [July 5, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-external-movie-on-an-external-movie/265176 "2008-07-05T10:15:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![kingkongballs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@kingkongballs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kingkongballs)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-external-movie-on-an-external-movie/265176/1 "2008-07-05T10:15:05Z")

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i have a navigation button that goes to gallery  
the gallery button opens an external swf in a container called gallery.swf

in gallery.swf there are 8 buttons that are meant to link to xml galleries.  
i cant seem to load any of those galleries over the gallery.swf movie in the container.

if this is not possible (which i cant see why since it’s just like loading a page onto \_self in an iframe with html), then how can i get around this?

thanks.

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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-external-movie-on-an-external-movie/265176/2 "2008-07-05T14:45:58Z")

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It’s certainly possible, but you’d need a less retarded nickname.

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**Author:** ![BenBart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@BenBart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BenBart)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-external-movie-on-an-external-movie/265176/3 "2008-07-05T22:31:41Z")

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You can load a swf inside of a swf inside of a swf. As long as it’s not an actionscript 3 loading an actionscript 2 swf loading another swf.

Your problem could be that any directories will be pointed to where you main swf is.  
For example. Your main swf is in:

main/index.swf

it is loading:  
main/swfs/myXMLoader.swf

the second swf is loading  
main/swfs/xml.xml

It will load properly when you open myXMLoader.swf on it’s own, but not index.swf. To fix that you need to move the file to:

main/xml.xml

Hope this helps.