# Reference a the root timeline from loaded swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-a-the-root-timeline-from-loaded-swf/301615>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 12, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-a-the-root-timeline-from-loaded-swf/301615 "2009-12-12T06:15:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikiekwoods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@mikiekwoods](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mikiekwoods)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-a-the-root-timeline-from-loaded-swf/301615/1 "2009-12-12T06:15:58Z")

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I’m sure this is addressed a lot, but I haven’t found a usable solution yet.

I’m loading a lightbox as an image gallery, but I’m working on changing it to full flash. My site is structured with external swfs. I ran into a barrier, because I’ll need to load the images (and reference the stage size) in the root timeline, but I don’t know how. MovieClip(root) only references the smaller loaded swf’s main timeline.

My site is [www.designermike.com](http://www.designermike.com)

Thanks

- Mike