# \[please help\] making loaded .swf do something in the original

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-making-loaded-swf-do-something-in-the-original/194456>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 23, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-making-loaded-swf-do-something-in-the-original/194456 "2006-07-23T20:31:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![yboris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecae2f/32.png) [@yboris](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yboris)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-making-loaded-swf-do-something-in-the-original/194456/1 "2006-07-23T20:31:29Z")

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[FONT=Arial]Hello everyone - please let me know if such a command or something equivalent exists (I am using Macromedia Flash Professional 8) [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I am trying to make a gallery where I have **index.swf** call it **(1)** (main page) that loads **gallery.swf** call it **(2)** (by using a movie clip ‘loader’). The gallery is width 2000 and scrolls when the mouse moves. When I click on one of the gallery photos, I want it to open up large **but not scroll** like the rest of the gallery. It is easiest to achieve if **(2)** asks **(1)** to open it in another ‘loader’.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]**Does such a function call (or something like that) exist?**[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Also - are these words used correctly: “**(2)** is the **child** while **(1)** is the **parent** ” (or are those two words used only for objects inside the script?[/FONT]