# Loadmovies navigation question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 18, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632 "2002-09-18T03:56:59Z")
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### Author:  [@exactpixel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/exactpixel)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632/1 "2002-09-18T03:56:59Z")
here’s the problem:
Ive got \_root movie that loads the my navigationto the \_level1 and the buttons on that level are loading movies on \_level5 (supposed to at least)and in the buttons on the navigation there is a movie clip that is activated on the mouse over (including that cuz i’m not sure if that is causing the problem)the navigation level when tested loads the movies on the \_level5 but when testing the level0 (root level) the navigationloads but when the buttons are clicked, they don’t load it’s level5 movies.
can you load movies with a button that is located on a different level than the root movie? if so then what am i missing? The path names are correct… help please.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632/2 "2002-09-18T15:59:27Z")
You can load/interact with movies on different levels with buttons. Your description is a bit confusing. Could you post your fla? Or email to [olives@funkyolive.com](mailto:olives@funkyolive.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632/3 "2002-09-18T18:13:59Z")
it’s 3 seperate .swfs,
#0 being the first main movie,
#1 being the navigation (loaded into the main movie’s \_level1)
#5 being the content (loaded from the navigaion swf to it’s (navigation’s) \_level5)
the question being, how can you get movies to load from a button(s) that has been loaded into a \_level different than the root level. for some reason, i can’t get it to work, all the paths are correct…
thanks,
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632/4 "2002-09-18T18:23:39Z")
Example:
\_level0: The main movie. has 1 scene, 2 frames, labelled “this” and “that”.
You press a button in the main movie (level0) and a swf appears loaded into level 2. In this new movie in level 2 you have a button that when pressed, you want to be able to send the main movie (level0) to the frame label called “that”. This is what you’d use for the button:
on (release) {
\_level0.gotoAndPlay(“that”);
If you then want a button in the main movie to talk to the new movie in level2, you’d use:
\_level2.gotoAndPlay(“scene”, “framenumber”);
Basically it’s:
(level).(action)
\_level0.gotoAndStop(“this”) \<— tells main movie to stop at a frame label called “this” in the main time line.
\_level2.yogi.booboo.gotoAndPlay(“open”) \<— tells a movie clip called “booboo” inside a movie clip called “yogi” (which is loaded into level 2) to go and play a frame labelled “open”.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovies-navigation-question/5632/5 "2002-09-19T01:55:23Z")
thanks guys/galls, i figured it out,
the problem was solved once i moved the files into there own folder, they worked just fine, the thing bieng is that i didn’t have full pathnames to each of my swfs. I wasn’t thinhking correctly… if you have a (\_level0) swf in a folder and that folder has a folder in it called swf, when you call into that folder to pull a swf out of it you must have a full pathname back into that folder to pull a swf out of it.
such as:
```
_level0 swf is in main
inside main is folder named swf
inside contains:
_level1 swf
_level5 swf
```
if you load \_level1 which contains buttons that load swfs to \_level5 that are located in folde swf you still have to have a full path name to those files even if they are in the same folder because they are being loaded onto a movie located outside of that folder.
i was trying to figure out why it wasn’t working, all the examples people gave me were the same as what i was using. I guess i’m a big bone head… thanks for all the help. i highly appretiate it.
thanks