# Movies in movies - need help please!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-movies-need-help-please/296967
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 23, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-movies-need-help-please/296967 "2009-09-23T13:27:21Z")
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### Author: ![tdq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@tdq](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tdq)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movies-in-movies-need-help-please/296967/1 "2009-09-23T13:27:21Z")

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I have three swfs I’ve made - one totally in Flash IDE, plus two Flash/Actionscript driven ones. Each of these runs well and are bug free - lets call them swf1, swf2, swf3.  
So I decided to plonk them in a fourth file (swf4), using a blank movieClip to place each one into when a button is pressed.  
The first movie drops in ok.  
The second and third do not - in fact I’ve getting an error where it seems that it is trying to reference a text field inside swf2, although it runs ok on it’s own. I don’t get this - aren’t the swf files, once compiled, basically self contained? (No references to external files in any of these…)  
I hope this makes sense, can anyone explain what is going on and how to get around it?

Here’s the code in swf4: (which works fine for swf1)  
var myContent:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“swf2.swf”);  
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();  
myLoader.load(myContent);  
canvas.addChild(myLoader); // canvas is a blank movieClip  
Error is this:  
ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property status\_tx on Main.

status\_tx is actually a textfield created in swf2 in the flash IDE.