# Onload not running!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 10, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530 "2004-02-10T02:49:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@hga77](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hga77)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/1 "2004-02-10T02:49:07Z")
This should be easy to answer…
I have 2 swf’s:
Section.swf (to be loaded in main)
Main.swf
In section.swf, on the first frame I have this:
[AS]
onLoad = function(){
// start doing stuff
}[/AS]
When I run the section.swf on its own, the onload function works, and the “doing stuff” code runs. But when I load it into main, this onload (within the section.swf, above) does not run!
I desperately need to fix this. Any help please…thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/2 "2004-02-10T02:52:20Z")
take everything out of onload and just stick it in the timeline.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/3 "2004-02-10T02:55:24Z")
I did that, the code still wont run!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/4 "2004-02-10T02:56:02Z")
whats the code?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/5 "2004-02-10T03:05:42Z")
ok…
just look at the onload function on the top…
[AS]
this.onLoad = function() {
/_Initialise variables_/
stage\_width = 512;
stage\_height = 384;
var image\_Initial\_Position\_x = -(stage\_width/2);
var image\_Initial\_Position\_y = -(stage\_height/2);
/\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/
MovieClip.prototype.useHandCursor = false;
window = this.createEmptyMovieClip(“border”, 2);
border.beginFill (0xFF0000, 100);
border.lineStyle(1, 0, 100);
border.lineTo(stage\_width, 0);
border.lineTo(stage\_width, stage\_height);
border.lineTo(0, stage\_height);
border.lineTo(0, 0);
endFill();
setMask(window);
this.createEmptyMovieClip(“clip”,“clip”,1);
clip.\_x = image\_Initial\_Position\_x;
clip.\_y = image\_Initial\_Position\_y;
clip.loadMovie(“car original.jpg”);
preload(clip);
};
[/AS]
outside this function (onload) I have proto functions, but that all works fine…
I just need the onload to run when this fla is being loaded into the main.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/6 "2004-02-10T03:17:04Z")
and when I dont include the onload function, the preload(clip) function call doesnt run.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/7 "2004-02-10T10:56:44Z")
bottom line, onLoad isnt used like that. You would basically only use it with OOP classes associated with movieclips.
where is preload defined?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onload-not-running/42530/8 "2004-02-10T13:44:03Z")
thanks senocular …I just changed the onload to a this.onEnterFrame function and it worked…thanks again