# MC buttons launching External SWFs w Transitions

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**Created:** [September 30, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-buttons-launching-external-swfs-w-transitions/202397 "2006-09-30T19:27:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-buttons-launching-external-swfs-w-transitions/202397/1 "2006-09-30T19:27:08Z")

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Hello all,

Please bare with me… I can handle animation but am somehow ignorant about ActionScript as my knowledge of Flash goes back to the Tell target actions…

I’ve been playing around with 2 tutorials I’ve found on Kirupa (see links below) in order to build a text based navigation:

My first level is made of MC buttons. All working great when adding the script indicated in the first tutorial.

From there, I would like to be able to load external SWFs when clicking on one of those first level buttons and in order to do so I added the script from the second tutorial (Transitions Between External SWFs)

Doing so, I was told I could only add that script on button symbols which is unfortunately i not an option at this point.

My question – how can I launch external SWFs that would allow transitions from those MC symbols?

**The tutorials:**

_Complex Button RollOver/RollOut Effects_  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button\_effect.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button_effect.htm)

_Transitions Between External SWFs_  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm)