# Once again, As3 makes something simple, totally incomprehensible

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-again-as3-makes-something-simple-totally-incomprehensible/291770
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**Created:** [July 5, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-again-as3-makes-something-simple-totally-incomprehensible/291770 "2009-07-05T05:21:16Z")
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### Author: ![dtrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@dtrace](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dtrace)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-again-as3-makes-something-simple-totally-incomprehensible/291770/1 "2009-07-05T05:21:16Z")

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all i want to do is something very basic.

Load in a swf into an mc.

My website has five buttons, I have five external swfs that need to be loaded into the same mc.

In AS2, it’s just loadMovie(“whatever.swf”, this.myMC)

And if I repeat the command, the new swf will just replace the old one.

As3 seems to be a complete cluster f#$% when it comes to doing much of anything. Cryptic error messages that don’t help…etc.

I’ve been trying addChild, and loader class, and all this, but I can’t removeChild before I add a new one.

How can I do what I want in AS3?

Thanks.