# Loading external swf file in a movie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 20, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838 "2004-09-20T17:55:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@GFresh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GFresh)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/1 "2004-09-20T17:55:48Z")
I can’t find any tutorials on the web on this so I thought maybe someone on here might know how or maybe I just missed the one on this site.
I want to make a webpage in flash and have buttons on it that would showcase my animated cartoons I’ve done. For example, say the webpage is a giant TV with buttons on it. You click a button and then a cartoon from an external source (i.e. my webspace) loads on the TV screen.
Does anybody know how to do this or is this even possible?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/2 "2004-09-20T18:18:04Z")
Yeah that’s possible - loadMovie is used for that. It loads an swf to a movieclip on the stage. This will help: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full\_site.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/3 "2004-09-20T19:47:39Z")
Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/4 "2004-09-20T20:03:55Z")
You’re welcome 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/5 "2004-09-21T03:07:13Z")
Is there any way to resize the movie inside the new one? So I don’t have to resize the original, but make it smaller when it plays on the webpage?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/6 "2004-09-21T18:07:58Z")
You can adjust the \_width and \_height / \_xscale and \_yscale of the loaded movie, but, that only works after the content (jpg/swf) has completely loaded. And, it’ll distort your movie also. The best, but also the most time consuming way is to manually resize it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-in-a-movie/64838/7 "2004-09-21T18:19:04Z")
Ooh okay. If I have to manually resize them that might take me awhile. Might reconsider this idea. Thanks for your help, though.