# Multi-Level external .swf's

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multi-level-external-swfs/79203>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 11, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multi-level-external-swfs/79203 "2005-02-11T17:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuperDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SuperDave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SuperDave)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multi-level-external-swfs/79203/1 "2005-02-11T17:41:53Z")

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Hello everybody! This is my first post, and unfortunately much needed.

I’m designing a small presentation for a college website which will give basic information about the class programs available at the school. The design has a vertical navigation of 5 buttons along the left side of the stage, and I would like to have the animation appear behind that navigation.

Here’s the structure of the entire set of files:

- container.swf
- mainMenu.swf
- Scene00.swf
- SceneGD.swf
- SceneMM.swf
- SceneFD.swf
- SceneFM.swf
- SceneNT.swf

The navigation is in mainMenu.swf and is loaded into container.swf. When the movie starts, Scene00.swf is loaded behind the navigation. But, when I try to code in an action for any of the buttons to load the other scene files onto the stage, it doesn’t work.

Do i need to place the code in the timeline of mainMenu.swf or attach it to the buttons in mainMenu.swf… OR, do i need to place the actionscript in the container.swf file?

And what would code be? Any help is greatly appreciated.

By the way, I really don’t have any actionscript experience. So if you could explain things in “Barney-style” that’d be great. 😃

Thanks in advance,  
Dave