# Quick question regarding loading movies into specific targets

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-regarding-loading-movies-into-specific-targets/20907>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 14, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-regarding-loading-movies-into-specific-targets/20907 "2003-05-14T16:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a6a055/32.png) [@Zeep](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Zeep)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-regarding-loading-movies-into-specific-targets/20907/1 "2003-05-14T16:15:22Z")

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Hi folks, hopefully this question will be pretty straightforward. I am working on a Flash site (deadline is Friday, eeek) which is set up so that the main movie has two clips: Gallery and Navigation. When someone clicks on a link to a specific gallery, I load the corresponding navigation movie into instance of “nav” and the corresponding gallery movie into instance of “gallery.”

What I am wondering is, how do I do the same thing not from the main flash movie, but from the newly loaded “navigation” movie? I am assuming that i refer to the same instance names, but do I need to reference a root layer somehow? are movies that get loaded into clips aware of the instances in the main (or “mother”) movie?

does that question make sense? hopefully it does.

I would really appreciate any info along this topic that anyone could provide. Many thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-regarding-loading-movies-into-specific-targets/20907/2 "2003-05-14T16:32:48Z")

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sorry to waste space on the forum 😊, turns out i just had to tweak the code a bit and reference it like this:

on (release) {  
loadMovie (“mech\_nav.swf”, “\_root.nav”);  
loadMovie (“mech.swf”, “\_root.gallery”);  
}

with the “\_root.” in front of the instance names - i figured it was something like that.

anyway… happy wednesday y’all!