# Load external SWF w. Movei Clip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-external-swf-w-movei-clip/157970>\
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**Created:** [August 5, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-external-swf-w-movei-clip/157970 "2005-08-05T14:33:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-external-swf-w-movei-clip/157970/1 "2005-08-05T14:33:03Z")

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I need help loading external swf’s with a Movieclip symbol.

I hade buttons, but wanted to keep them on when they where pressed. So i had to change them to Movie clips. I got this to work.

Now my action script to load the swf doesn’t work:

on (release) {  
loadMovieNum (“davebio.swf”, 1);  
}

I am guessing this is only for buttons? I want to load the swf into a level, how do I do that with a movieclip symbol?