# Loading external images into a ton of empty mc's

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-images-into-a-ton-of-empty-mcs/130701
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**Created:** [December 7, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-images-into-a-ton-of-empty-mcs/130701 "2004-12-07T19:03:27Z")
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### Author: ![thirdworldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@thirdworldman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thirdworldman)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-images-into-a-ton-of-empty-mcs/130701/1 "2004-12-07T19:03:27Z")

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Can someone direct me as to the absolute easiest–most dumbed-down way to reference an empty movie clip (in my timeline) to an external image? Specifically, I have about 100 emtpy movie clips and would like to apply a simple actionscript linking them either directly to the external image or to one global xml scripted list of images such as this:

\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8” standalone=“yes”?\>  
\<images\>  
\<pic\>  
\<image\>images/image1.jpg\</image\>  
\</pic\>  
\<pic\>  
\<image\>images/image2.jpg\</image\>  
\</pic\>  
\<pic\>  
\<image\>images/image3.jpg\</image\>  
\</pic\>  
\</images\>

If anyone knows of one global actionscript I can use that references all of the mc’s to all of the images that would be even better. Thanks.