# Load movie issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 11, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652 "2003-05-11T22:11:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
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**Author:** ![morse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@morse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/morse)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/1 "2003-05-11T22:11:32Z")

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Look at this:  
[http://www.morsedesigns.com/profile/quotes.swf](http://www.morsedesigns.com/profile/quotes.swf)  
When you open it loads a random thinger.

But in this movie:  
[http://www.morsedesigns.com/profile/profile.html](http://www.morsedesigns.com/profile/profile.html) (mouse over on the left, click quotes)  
It loads the same “quotes.swf” but doesn’t work.

help, why doesn’t it work???

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/2 "2003-05-11T22:27:14Z")

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bump please help maybe perhaps ( ? )

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/3 "2003-05-11T22:30:27Z")

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Hard to tell if you don’t tell how it works 🙂

Nice tsunami by the way. Did you code it?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/4 "2003-05-11T22:31:05Z")

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im a noob, but are u using \_root. or \_parent? try using \_parent. in the quotes swf.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/5 "2003-05-11T22:33:36Z")

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pom: hehehe nope, I stole it. Everything else I coded, and thats why it all sucks 😛

```auto
quote = new Array("many thing", "in here", "etc");
_root.textmc.text = quote.length;
rndm = random(quote.length);
movie = rndm;
_root.qt.text = quote[movie];

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/6 "2003-05-11T22:34:52Z")

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try that

quote = new Array(“many thing”, “in here”, “etc”);  
\_parent.textmc.text = quote.length;  
rndm = random(quote.length);  
movie = rndm;  
\_parent.qt.text = quote[movie];

if u are loading the quote.swf into another movie, then it is going to look for those files in \_root, which is the main movie. \_parent will look for them in the movie loaded

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/7 "2003-05-11T22:36:12Z")

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but this code is in the root timeline of the movie i load. you really think that would change anything?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/8 "2003-05-11T22:39:48Z")

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oh the load code

```auto
on (release) {
	loadMovie("http://www.morsedesigns.com/profile/quotes.swf", _root.loadmc);
}

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/9 "2003-05-11T22:40:44Z")

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yea, lets do this…

MainMovie.swf and Quotes.swf

inside MainMovie you have a MC named loadInto. when you click a button in MainMovie, it loads Quotes.swf into loadInto. if in Quotes.swf you have code that says \_root., it will look in MainMovie, since now MainMovie is the \_root. Changing code that is only relevant to Quotes.swf to \_parent. will look for those files within Quotes.swf, and not MainMovie.swf.

I kno this is horribly worded, but im just gettin into the swing of things

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/10 "2003-05-11T22:40:53Z")

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and before, I had a loader in the quotes.swf. But it never played, I don’t know why. So I trashed the loader. Any idea why? It worked when I previewed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/11 "2003-05-11T22:41:45Z")

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oh I think I get what you mean, disney. thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/12 "2003-05-11T22:42:42Z")

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no problem, i just hope that works  
_crossing fingers_

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/13 "2003-05-11T22:42:46Z")

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😛 thanks for you honnesty 😛

```auto
quote = new Array("many thing", "in here", "etc");
this.textmc.text = quote.length;
var rndm = random(quote.length);
this.qt.text = quote[rndm];

```

That is, if your texts are on the \_root of the loaded movie.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/14 "2003-05-11T22:44:04Z")

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ily, hey, im new, im learnin… but could you reply to MY thread?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/15 "2003-05-11T22:45:41Z")

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hah, thank pom. Us n00bs do the stupidest things.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-issue/20652/16 "2003-05-11T22:48:04Z")

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morse, how DARE you call yourself a noob, hah. if your a noob, then what am i? i dont even wanna think about it.