# Once upon a time there was a little loadmovie question **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 8, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919 "2002-03-08T12:56:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/1 "2002-03-08T12:56:55Z")
…and the question was asked by Syko who wanted to know how to load a movie to a specific area into your movie. I mean if I have a movieclip “mc” in my movie and I want that movieclip turn into another webpage that loads when I press a btn.\rSomething like this maybe???\r\_root.mc.loadmovie("\…");\\ror maybe some other way\rI tried to do it like this \ron (release) {\r\_root.mc.loadmovie("\…");\\r}\rbut when I press the btn the mc disappears and it says\r\* Error opening URL “\…"\ \*\r\rAnd they lived happily ever after…\r\rSyko ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/2 "2002-03-08T14:18:56Z")
Why dont you try the function:\r\rgetURL (“url”, “\_window”); ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/3 "2002-03-08T16:36:18Z")
I don’t wanna try that actions cuz I don’t want it to open a whole new webpage I wanna… like make frames in flash so that only one movieclip changes. (movieclip as a frame) ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/4 "2002-03-08T16:52:56Z")
In your button, you can write the actions : ```auto on (press) {\r\r loadMovie("mymovie.swf",_root.container) ;\r\r} ``` Where container is an empty clip. You can also load into level, but there are more restrictions.\rSomebody outta make a tutorial about loading movies, cause it’s a question a lot of people are asking. I have a lot of work right now. Jubby ?\r\rpom 0] ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/5 "2002-03-08T18:12:10Z")
But if I load a movie no actions will work…\rDo I have to load these variables all one by one? …or is there a better way (I wish there is… otherwize I have to use getURL …I think…) ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/6 "2002-03-08T18:16:29Z")
What do you mean, no actions will work ? Which actions ? Where ? Why ? When ? Whence ?? \rpom 0] ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/7 "2002-03-08T18:36:48Z")
let me take a look at how to do it. and i’ll come up with something. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/8 "2002-03-08T19:14:16Z")
ok pom…i got the load movie thing to work, however, I think this is what he meant earlier. What i did was i used the loadMovie to load a SWF that i had my last website on. and some of the actions didn’t work. Any idea why? like my menu button didn’t work. I think it was because the button in that movie said to open \_root.menu, but now did the root change now that I loaded this SWf into another? does this make any sense to anyone? am I even speaking english anymore? Tengo una fiesta en mis pantalones y todos son invitados…??? ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/9 "2002-03-08T19:48:41Z")
You’re Spanish ?? No… That can’t be…\rAnyway, that \_root. problem is surely it. Try to modifiy your swf so that it never goes to \_root. Try and use \_parent. instead.\r\rpom 0] ---
**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:** [March 8, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/10 "2002-03-08T19:55:09Z")
thats exactly what i thought (no bull\*\*\*\*ting you) :lol: I’ll make a tut for the load movie. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-little-loadmovie-question/2919/11 "2002-03-09T06:10:20Z")
It’d be cool! 🙂 (the tutorial)