# Load external image?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-external-image/139355>\
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**Created:** [March 2, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-external-image/139355 "2005-03-02T12:47:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Unit9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Unit9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Unit9)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-external-image/139355/1 "2005-03-02T12:47:18Z")

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Hi all, 🙂

I’m trying to load an jpg file that is outside my flash SWF file and I’ve tried this code:

loadMovieNum(“1.jpg”, 1);

But it doesn’t work.

Is there any simple code to load an external jpeg image into Flash?

Thanks! 🙂