# Nesting swf files

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nesting-swf-files/299435
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 5, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nesting-swf-files/299435 "2009-11-05T03:23:32Z")
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### Author: ![almondo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@almondo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/almondo)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nesting-swf-files/299435/1 "2009-11-05T03:23:32Z")

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Hi… can anyone help??  
I’m loading an external swf into a movie clip and i want a button in the external swf to load a different external swf into the same movie clip… ie. \_root.my\_loader.loadClip(“videoPlayer.swf”, “\_root.containerMC”);  
is how i loaded the first external swf in… but the same code won’t work for the button within videoPlayer.swf… how do i refer to the movie clip and file??

any help would be awesome… thanks