# Loading external swf into movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-into-movie-clip/302804
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**Created:** [January 7, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-into-movie-clip/302804 "2010-01-07T18:10:04Z")
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### Author: ![xbuddhax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d9b06d/32.png) [@xbuddhax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xbuddhax)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-swf-into-movie-clip/302804/1 "2010-01-07T18:10:04Z")

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Hi…maybe someone will find a time to help me with my little problem. This used to be so easy in AS1 and AS2, but since I haven’t been using Flash in 2 years now… looks like time ran over me - and it looks like it’d take me a while before I figure this out in AS3.  
So, what I want to do is to call external swf into another movie clip and my stage is set like this.

In main timeline I have two layers:first is COLOR=Magenta[/COLOR] and contains movie clip [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]“center\_mc”[/COLOR] which is positioned in the middle of stage and in the second layer COLOR=Magenta[/COLOR] is movie clip [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]“mbottom\_mc”[/COLOR] that will contain buttons as [COLOR=YellowGreen]“menubtn01”[/COLOR].  
So what I Want to do is when I click on this [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]“menubtn01”[/COLOR] to call external swf into THAT movie [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]“center\_mc”[/COLOR].  
So to clear the external swf that [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]“center\_mc”[/COLOR] is showing with the new.

PLease help! ☹ 🙂  
PS [COLOR=Magenta]"…"[/COLOR] = instance names COLOR=DeepSkyBlue[/COLOR] = layer names