# Problems loading variable and external swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-loading-variable-and-external-swf/48169>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 10, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-loading-variable-and-external-swf/48169 "2004-04-10T20:23:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![justme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@justme](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/justme)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-loading-variable-and-external-swf/48169/1 "2004-04-10T20:23:43Z")

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I need to load an external swf into a target within an mc on my main stage. I have this code from [tableau.com](http://tableau.com) but can’t seem to make it work when loading into the target on \_root / \_level0. I have also looked at the Kirupa tutorial ‘Preloader and Transition for Dynamic Files’ which is very similar, but I can’t seem to get that to work the way I want either – I think I’m getting mixed up on the variables part and whether I can load onto the same level? – please can anyone help me???

[COLOR=SlateGray]//initialise a variable[/COLOR]  
nextMovie=“content1.swf”;  
[COLOR=SlateGray]//load the starting movie into level 1[/COLOR]  
loadMovieNum(nextMovie,1);  
[COLOR=SlateGray]//button1 actions[/COLOR]  
button1.onRelease=function(){  
[COLOR=SlateGray]//this makes sure that content 1 isn’t already loaded[/COLOR]  
if(nextMovie!=“content1.swf”){  
[COLOR=SlateGray]//set the variable that holds the name of the movie to be loaded[/COLOR] nextMovie=“content1.swf”;  
[COLOR=SlateGray]//tell the currently loaded content movie to play it’s outro animation[/COLOR]  
\_level1.gotoAndPlay(“outro”);  
}  
}

The above is the original tableau code, I have tried various combinations but nothing works. I need to load content1.swf into \_root.all.content and set the variable accordingly – any help would be greatly appreciated.

p.s having just typed all that I’ve realised that part of my problem (when I got it to do something rather than nothing), was that \_level0/\_root contains my interface, so when I was loading the external swf to level0, I was replacing the objects on my interface. Having said that, how would I move an existing targetMC on my main stage to sit on \_level1 – can that be done??

Anyway, y’all probably know a much better way of doing this than me, so any help would be great!

Many thanks in advance!!