# Loading External SWF file problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-problem/232383>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 13, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-problem/232383 "2007-07-13T08:06:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![antegrav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@antegrav](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/antegrav)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-file-problem/232383/1 "2007-07-13T08:06:20Z")

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Hey everyone! I’m having a problem loading external swf files into a main Swf file. For example i’m working on my companies website, i created a slideshow with thumbnails. Within this slideshow, there is a stop and pause slideshow buttons. The main SWF file is my navigation buttons that call for each category (external SWF file). if i play the side show when i click on another category another slideshow swf file opens, but the slidshow plays automatically, when it isn’t supposed to play automatically. After that i can’t pause the slideshow. I was wondering why it was doing this. But if i load a SWF file and not play the slidshow and choose another catgory everything is ok. Please help!!!