# Loadmovie headache
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 8, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396 "2003-05-08T08:51:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@xiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xiii)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/1 "2003-05-08T08:51:21Z")
Hello Folks,
I am running out of time and out of options here, but I am stuck with a problem for a site I am working on.
Instead of writing it all down here, a visible approach is maybe good to save difficult to understand bla bla.
so : open the following link in the browser
> **[404 Page Not Found - Outox, The Safety Drink](http://www.outox.com/index.php/404)**
>
> Sorry! 404 Page Not Found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try using...
wait for the two interfaces to load.
you will see several buttons , now drag the “mix-me” button on the bottle or in the rectangular area on the bottom.
a few moments later, a mixmovie appears. this mixmovie contains actionscript code to scroll the different recipes left and right.
now here is my problem.
I loaded the \*\*\*\*tail.swf file into an empty movie clip with instance name content\_dummy. It loads perfectly but the actions in the \*\*\*\*tail.swf file seem all to be gone.
This does not happen with the loadmovieNum method but I would prefer to have it loaded into the dummy movieclip, because it is more manageable ?
can anyone help ?
XIII
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/2 "2003-05-08T08:53:06Z")
Note
XIII, because of the Kocktail.swf doestn work properly when I write it as I should but it is with a C
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/3 "2003-05-08T09:05:31Z")
Sorry , code is FLASH MX, thx again
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/4 "2003-05-08T09:35:03Z")
since you said it works with loadMovieNum… remove **\_root** from all the scripts and use this/\_parent instead. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/5 "2003-05-08T10:00:05Z")
Kax, I would love to use this approach, however it will not solve my problem.
I will need to use loadmovie where i have NO option to use this method.
However ? would it be a bug in Flash that some people have and I dont ? I am just guessing here, but I think it is strange to be able to keep the actions specified if loadMovieNum is used and nothing works with a target clip.
I really need to work with the target clip
Help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/6 "2003-05-08T10:04:12Z")
no! i’m not telling you to use loadMovieNum!! 😛
do **not** use \_root in your scripts, use relative addressing (this and/or \_parent). that’s what i said. =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/7 "2003-05-08T10:43:50Z")
so you mean on the button action :
loadMovie(“Kocktail.swf”, “\_parent.parent.content\_dummy”);
instead of
loadMovie(“Kocktail.swf”, “\_root.content\_dummy”);
the button with this action is located in the following movie clip relative to the main stage :
scene1 -\> \*\*\*\*tail button -\> \*\*\*\*tail black circle
I used this parent thing but it doesnt seem to work either.
Thx for your patience (y)
PS is absolute pathing giving me a hard time here ???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-headache/20396/8 "2003-05-08T10:48:09Z")
nope… you need to fix the addressing in kocktail.swf, not the main movie. :-\