# Quick newb question

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**Created:** [February 1, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-newb-question/136058 "2005-02-01T23:44:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaugustavo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jaugustavo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jaugustavo)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-newb-question/136058/1 "2005-02-01T23:44:20Z")

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ok so i have this movie, with an empty movie clip inside it called “mcEmpty”, when my movie loads i have the code:

//create an instance of MovieClipLoader  
var mcEmpty = new MovieClipLoader();  
//load the files into their respective targets  
mcEmpty.loadClip(“swf/science\_center.swf”,“mcEmpty”);

that loads an external .swf and everything works fine. my question is how do i call to an external .swf like the above code, but with a button. i tried fro hours to figure it out and test it but it doesnt want to work. i figure there has to be some changes from 1.0, and im pretty new to this 2.0 coding, so if anyone could help that would be sweet.