# Load image for image button

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-image-for-image-button/298386>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 17, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-image-for-image-button/298386 "2009-10-17T22:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![artcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@artcoder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artcoder)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-image-for-image-button/298386/1 "2009-10-17T22:03:00Z")

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I have a button object named “thumb1\_mc”. In one layer, I put an empty movieclip “image\_mc”.

I want to write actionscript 2.0 code to load a jpg into this movieclip.

I’ve tried …  
loadMovie(“img/slide1.jpg”, \_root.container.thumb1\_mc.image\_mc);

and I’ve tried …  
var thumbClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();  
thumbClipLoader.loadClip(“img/slide1.jpg”,\_root.container.thumb1\_mc.image\_mc);

both does not work.