# Parent-Child LoadMovie Issues

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parent-child-loadmovie-issues/169532>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 17, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parent-child-loadmovie-issues/169532 "2005-11-17T00:23:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parent-child-loadmovie-issues/169532/1 "2005-11-17T00:23:39Z")

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Hello,

I am a Flash MX user and am having some difficulty assigning events to a particular button.

Here goes:

I am working with:

Parent Movie  
-A Single scene  
-An instance of a movieclip control on its own layer (movie\_01)

Child Movie (services.swf)  
-A single scene  
-An instance of a movieclip control on its own layer  
-3 Text Box controls all on the same layer  
-Several button controls on same layer. All are an instance of  
a button in my library. All have unique instance names.

I want to:  
-Select a button in a child .swf (services.swf) and have it call the parent movieclip control(movie\_01)  
it is currently loaded in which will command the parent movieclip to unload the movie  
where I originally selected the button and load the .swf reference  
that I pass to it. (service\_01.swf)

I attempt to:  
-Select a button instance in the child movie and hit F9 to launch ActionScript.  
-Enter the following code:  
unloadMovie("\_parent.movie\_01");  
loadMovie(“service\_01.swf”,\_parent.movie\_01);

-Launch parent movie to test it and load services.swf  
-Click on the button in services.swf and nothing happens.  
I even tried using something simple like  
“getURL(”\<A href=“[http://www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)”,\_self"\>[http://www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)",\_self);"

Any ideas??

This has me totally stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,  
James Davis