# loadMovie Problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 8, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934 "2004-07-08T22:53:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@dude9er](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dude9er)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934/1 "2004-07-08T22:53:17Z")
I’m loading an external swf into an empty mc called “emptyMC” on my main timeline. that loaded swf loads another swf into an empty mc called “view2” when a button is pressed. Here is my code…
```auto
on (release) {
loadMovie("tabletennis.swf", "_root.emptyMC.view2");
}
```
the above code isn’t working right. I’m not sure how to target each empty MC in sequence in order for this to work.
Any thoughts?
Thanks. This board has been a great help so far.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934/2 "2004-07-09T02:00:40Z")
sorry i not so undertsand what u mean…
but as i know you cannot put 2 items as “\_root.emptyMC.view2”.
If you want a movie load a external swf file and that external swf file load another external file again .Then u shall make another movie inside that first external loaded movie to load the second external file.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934/3 "2004-07-09T03:50:31Z")
what about:
on (release) {
loadMovie(“tabletennis.swf”, “\_root.view2”);
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934/4 "2004-07-10T18:35:16Z")
hi g-shock. I tried the above code and it isn’t working. view2 isn’t exactly on the root timeline, it’s in a empty MC called “emptyMC” that is on the main timeline. Any ideas on how to target it. I just can’t seem to get this darn thing working. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-problem/56934/5 "2004-07-10T18:59:36Z")
> [@dude9er](#):
>
> hi g-shock. I tried the above code and it isn’t working. view2 isn’t exactly on the root timeline, it’s in a empty MC called “emptyMC” that is on the main timeline. Any ideas on how to target it. I just can’t seem to get this darn thing working. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
The code you were using
on (release) {
loadMovie(“tabletennis.swf”, “\_root.emptyMC.view2”);
}
should work. I`ve reproduced the hierachy here & no probs, so it must be something else.
[http://www.gifsrus.com/testfile/disp.zip](http://www.gifsrus.com/testfile/disp.zip)