# Loading mc's from the library
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 27, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867 "2003-05-27T14:24:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@schling](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/schling)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/1 "2003-05-27T14:24:03Z")
Hi
I want to load a mc’s with a button click from the library.
Anyone know of a tutorial for it? Or know how how do it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/2 "2003-05-27T14:30:16Z")
[MovieClip.attachMovie](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary508.html). 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/3 "2003-05-27T15:43:30Z")
hum…
Could you please show me an exampel of how that code works. The exampel in the help file wasn’t that good.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/4 "2003-05-27T15:48:59Z")
well first you have to go into your library and find the movie clip, select export for actionscript and give it a linkage name.
so then it will end up looking like this
```auto
linkageName.attachMovie
```
or
```auto
attachMovie("linkageName", linkageName1, 1)
```
I’m pretty sure that is how it should look
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/5 "2003-05-27T16:49:46Z")
Yeah 😃 Manged to get it to open it self.
But how do I deside the coordinates for it to open? And can I attach codes to it because I want a drag and drop function on it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/6 "2003-05-27T16:51:47Z")
MovieClip.attachMovie in kax’s post is a link 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/7 "2003-05-27T16:52:39Z")
ohhhhhh
well now i feel dumb
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/8 "2003-05-27T16:55:56Z")
lostinbeta. Yeah I did take a look at that link but that help file only helped me a bit. Didn’t know I had to cross that export to actionscript thing. Didn’t even know about it until today 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/9 "2003-05-27T17:16:11Z")
If you take a look at
www.idefag.no/~djensen
Press “Who am I?” and the mc should attach itself. But places itself up the top left corner.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/10 "2003-05-27T17:41:41Z")
here you go. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/11 "2003-05-27T17:52:34Z")
Nice 😉 Very nice Kax. I owe you again.
Were did you learn all this action script? And are you really from Mexico?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/12 "2003-05-27T17:58:57Z")
you’re welcome. 😉
q: where did you learn all this actionscript?
a: mostly from here, [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com). =)
q: and are you really from mexico?
a: yeah! why would i lie about that!? 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/13 "2003-05-27T18:33:29Z")
That’s strange…
I ran into a little problem here. You script works fine. I take parts of that into my own. Putting the code into the button and change it a bit. Everything worked expect the coordinates. So I tried useing your code, pasting the code into the timeline. But the coordinates still wouldn’t work ☹
What could be wrong? Even with the same code it won’t work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/14 "2003-05-27T18:37:17Z")
:stunned:
no idea. 😛
why don’t you attach your .fla so i can check it out… ? 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/15 "2003-05-27T18:41:35Z")
Here it is. Starts on frame 3
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/16 "2003-05-27T18:45:41Z")
ehmm… where is it? 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/17 "2003-05-27T18:49:24Z")
Let me try this again then :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/18 "2003-05-27T18:50:48Z")
Well, it seems like I can’t attach files…
isn’t 10Mb the limit here?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/19 "2003-05-27T18:55:50Z")
i don’t know about the size limit…
i guess you could upload it to your server then… 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-mcs-from-the-library/21867/20 "2003-05-27T19:02:31Z")
Okey. Apperently I’m only getting problems today.
The swf file get’s the error message that it’s to big to post (337kb). And the fla file won’t be uploaded to the web.
But can’t you download the swf file from my webpage and open it in flash?
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