# Scroll buttons don't work inside movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroll-buttons-dont-work-inside-movie-clip/58054
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 19, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroll-buttons-dont-work-inside-movie-clip/58054 "2004-07-19T13:16:15Z")
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### Author: ![miu66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@miu66](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/miu66)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroll-buttons-dont-work-inside-movie-clip/58054/1 "2004-07-19T13:16:15Z")

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i have a movie clip (in a movie, let’s call the movie main.swf) that loads an external swf (call it scroll.swf) with a scrolling textbox in it. when i test scroll.swf, it works fine. but when i test main.swf, scroll.swf loads fine but the scroll buttons don’t work. anyone have any idea why??