# Load Movie Nightmare
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 27, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565 "2003-02-27T21:34:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@MiKoO](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MiKoO)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/1 "2003-02-27T21:34:58Z")
Hi Guys š
Iāve just joined, as I really need some help from some of your pro flash users. Ok Iām new to flash, only used it a few timesā¦
The problem Iām havingā¦ I made a site in flash a while ago, v.basic (tell target etc etc) Iām making one now using the loadmovie commandā¦ Moving on
Today I started making it all upā¦I followed the tut on this site, and made external swfās etcā¦OK the real problem
I have one movieā¦In this movie I have buttons, which open up a movie in the lower half of the site. The movie that opens up in the lower half, has buttons inside too, which I want to load movies into the loaded movie within the main movie _phew_
To give you a better ideaā¦
Main movie
"
Movie loaded in lower half of above movie
"
Movie loaded into the above loaded movie
The first movie loads in the main without any problem, but when I try to load the 3rd movie,into the second(loaded into main)movie, nothing happensā¦ Iām using the code given with the tut on this siteā¦The one that creates an empty clip (container)ā¦
I guess if you looked it at it, you might get a better ideaā¦_shrugs_
[HELP ME](http://www.implodingvoices.co.uk/test3.html) Note this is rough as a dog so far, but iām sure youāll get the ideaā¦I want the movie to load within the gallery movie that I loadedā¦if this is all confusing sorryā¦Iām a real newbie at this action scripting :hangover:
Thanks for any help you can give me, or even a work aroundā¦before I end up cutting the flash in half and working with two movies ;(
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/2 "2003-02-27T21:45:50Z")
Hereās the code Iām using it might make things easierā¦
Ok main movieā¦The Gallery Button has this code attached to itā¦
gallery.onPress = function () {
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(ācontainerā, 1);
loadMovie(āGallery.swfā, ācontainerā);
container.\_x = 20 ;
container.\_y = 220 ;
}
Then the poser gallery button within the Loaded movie has this codeā¦
poser.onPress = function () {
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(ācontainerā, 1);
loadMovie(āPoserGalleryPage1.swfā, ācontainerā);
container.\_x = 0 ;
container.\_y = 0 ;
}
Nothing happens thoughā¦? When I run a test movie with just the gallery clip, everything works fine, but when I run through from the Main Movie clip, only the first loaded movie worksā¦
Hope that helpsā¦
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/3 "2003-02-27T22:05:20Z")
gallery.onPress = function () {
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(ācontainer1ā, 1);
loadMovie(āGallery.swfā, ācontainer1ā);
container1.\_x = 20 ;
container1.\_y = 220 ;
}
Then the poser gallery button within the Loaded movie has this codeā¦
poser.onPress = function () {
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(ācontainer2ā, 2);
loadMovie(āPoserGalleryPage1.swfā, ācontainer2ā);
container2.\_x = 0 ;
container2.\_y = 0 ;
}
try this, i adjusted the MC names and levels
if you give 2 MCās the same level, the first one will dissapearā¦ and you get errors and flash starts to cry etcā¦ š
try it, maybe it works
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/4 "2003-02-27T22:14:25Z")
Cheers Iāll give that ago now
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/5 "2003-02-27T22:29:09Z")
No I canāt get that to work either ā¹ raaaaaaaah
It still wonāt load the movie into the loaded movie
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/6 "2003-02-27T22:35:03Z")
Well \_root targets the main movie.
So tryā¦
```php
gallery.onPress = function () {
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container1", 1);
this.container1.loadMovie("Gallery.swf");
container1._x = 20 ;
container1._y = 220 ;
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/7 "2003-02-27T22:40:31Z")
\_parent also worksā¦
\_root = the main movie
\_parent = the \_root of the movie were the action is located,
lemme xplain moreā¦
if i have index.swf as the main movie,
INSIDE the index.swf, i load news.swf
\*when \_parent is located inside index.swf, it will do the same as \_rootā¦
\*when \_parent is located inside news.swf, it will go to the \_root of news.swfā¦
understand? great! š
edit:
deleted all \_currentā¦ sorry š
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/8 "2003-02-27T22:47:25Z")
Maybe I am crazy, but I donāt believe \_current is an actual locator option in Flash. It sounds like if it was for anything it would be for a hyperlink aka a getURL location such as \_self, \_top, \_blank, etc.
But I am pretty sure \_current doesnāt exist :-\
I could be wrong :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/9 "2003-02-27T22:50:34Z")
you are wrong, i used \_current in this creation:
[LAB](http://menno.us/~RvGate/rvgate/lab/)
i needed to use \_current or else the orange ball 1 loaded movie would crash becoz the drag targets were the same as the main movieā¦when i used \_current, everything went smoothā¦
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/10 "2003-02-27T22:53:27Z")
Sorry, im looking all over the web for this \_current thing and I canāt find anything on it. Can you please show me where you learned it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/11 "2003-02-27T22:54:38Z")
i asked on another forum located here:
[Web-con](http://www.web-con.nl/)
searching to thread i posted nowā¦
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/12 "2003-02-27T22:57:57Z")
Wow, I definitely canāt read that at allā¦lol.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/13 "2003-02-27T23:00:12Z")
Its not in the AS Reference, Its not in the AS Dictionary, its not in the undocumented features list, its nowhere to be found through google or any other search engine.
I am still skeptical.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/14 "2003-02-27T23:01:06Z")
i remember, i looked up the lab i made, and i was using \_parent there, not \_currentā¦ š
sorry for the inconvenienceā¦ill edit posts
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/15 "2003-02-27T23:02:47Z")
Well I am glad to hear I am not completely insane RvGaTeā¦lol. I was scrambling everywhere to find information on this because I was wondering how I could have never learned that if it existed since it is a locator and thats one of the most important things to know in Flash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-nightmare/14565/16 "2003-02-27T23:07:20Z")
anyways, lets go help this guy again instead of goin completely offtopic š