# Need serious help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 22, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781 "2003-01-22T05:23:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Audrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Audrius](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Audrius)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/1 "2003-01-22T05:23:20Z")

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hey guys

here is the issue I am having:

I have a button in my main movie and after it is pressed i want for it to open a pop up window right next to this button with some information in it.

I have a email button so when you click on that button I want another window to open right next to this email button with my email address.

do you think its possible in F MX

thanks everybody

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/2 "2003-01-22T05:48:22Z")

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Create your window. Turn it into a movie clip symbol. Give it the instance name “eMail” (no quotes).

Double click it to edit it.

Click and drag the first frame so it is in Frame 2.

Put a stop() action on frame 1 and on frame 2.

On your button add these actions…

```auto
on (release) {
_parent.eMail.gotoAndStop(2);
}

```

Then if you want to close it you can add a button inside your clip that has an x or something and use these actions on that…

```auto
on (release){
_parent.gotoAndStop(1);
}

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/3 "2003-01-22T06:08:52Z")

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thank you so much everything worked great except now i have another problem:

well I have a main movie.swf with some buttons only. when i click on button1 it opens external.swf and if I click on button2 it opens and replaces externalmovie2.swf so if I click on button 3 which loads externalcontact.swf and inside that externalcontact.swf there is a button you helped me to do, and this button doesn’t open a little pop up window the one you helped me to create. but when i test that externalcontact.swf it works fine but when i load that externalcontact.swf into my main site it doesn’t work at all.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/4 "2003-01-22T06:11:11Z")

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My mistake in the code above… change \_root to \_parent.

I meant to have both as \_parent.

PS: Why do you e-mail me with your reply every time you reply? I get an e-mail automatically from the forum when you reply anyways.

[edit] fixed code above[/edit]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/5 "2003-01-22T06:14:05Z")

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sorry about that replay thing I wasn’t sure you get emails from forum  
Thanks for helping me it works really well

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/6 "2003-01-22T06:16:48Z")

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No problem, I am glad I could help 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/7 "2003-01-22T06:28:17Z")

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well I changed \_root to \_parent and for some reason it didn’t work but then I changed back to \_root it works fine except when i load that movie into another movie it doesn’t work either,  
here is what I am working on

I am buiding a web site in Flash MX, I have five external swf’s and one main swf which is called “navigation.swf” so when i load email.swf(the one you just helped me with) into navigation.swf and it doesn’t work

but then when i test email.swf in Flash MX it works just fine

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/8 "2003-01-22T06:29:36Z")

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When you changed it to \_parent, did it work when you loaded it in?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/9 "2003-01-22T06:31:43Z")

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nope it didn’t

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/10 "2003-01-22T06:37:07Z")

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```auto
on (release) {
	_parent.eMail.gotoAndStop(2);
}

```

to open the menu and

```auto
on (release) {
	_parent.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

```

to close it.

It works great for me. Are you sure your instance names are correct?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/11 "2003-01-22T06:53:33Z")

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Why it’s not working for this SWF works fine when I open it separate but when I incorporate it into another movie it freaks out

Maybe there is something to do with my main movie buttons they also load other swf’s as \_parent

my each button has this code:

on (release) {  
\_parent.contents.loadMovie(“about.swf”);  
}  
and so on

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/12 "2003-01-22T06:54:07Z")

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Did you remember to save and publish your new .swf file?

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/13 "2003-01-22T06:55:05Z")

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yes i did

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/14 "2003-01-22T07:03:57Z")

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Well dude… I mentioned everything I could think of. Check the attachment, it has all the files I used. The file that uses loadMovie() is called loadContainer.

There is only one thing I can think of now… are you using loadMovie() or loadMovieNum? If is is loadMovieNum, then change the \_parent on the button to open it to \_level# (where # is the # of the level you are loading the movie to).

Note: Requires MX to open.

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/15 "2003-01-22T07:40:11Z")

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Nope, doesn’t work. I have to go really soon and I might not be on for two days so can you rush with the .flas?

I don’t want to rush you, but I have to…lol.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/16 "2003-01-22T07:44:55Z")

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I can’t upload Fla’s since my fla’s are a little too big even after i cleaned library

did you get any ideas

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/17 "2003-01-22T07:48:23Z")

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No clue man. Everything I thought might be wrong was stated before.

Are you using loadMovie() or loadMovieNum()?

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/18 "2003-01-22T07:48:39Z")

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u see what Im saying man

i know man it;s kinda late i will try to catch u in a couple of days

thanks for helping

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/19 "2003-01-22T07:49:47Z")

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load MOvie()

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-serious-help/11781/20 "2003-01-22T07:51:01Z")

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Oh ok. Because if it was loadMovieNum() it would have given us the option of changing it to \_leve# instead of \_parent.

But nope, that option is out now and now I am out of options altogether.

Goodnight man. Sorry I couldn’t help more with your problem, but I have to be up in like 4 hours :beam:…lol.