# Simple external swf - one after the other HELP

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-external-swf-one-after-the-other-help/307297
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-external-swf-one-after-the-other-help/307297 "2010-04-01T01:37:01Z")
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### Author: ![Greytega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ab097/32.png) [@Greytega](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Greytega)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-external-swf-one-after-the-other-help/307297/1 "2010-04-01T01:37:01Z")

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hi I have searched on the forums and made a good effort at looking around, i have read through Transitions Between External SWFs by Voetsjoeba. But it is too complicated to what i want to do.

Basically all i want is to load one external swf after the other.

so I load the first one in, wait until it has finished and then load the second one, wait until it finishes and so on.

i know how to load the swf in a movieclip but i just dont know any other action script to find the end of an swf or when it stops, or how to set the ammount of frames it plays for.

so i want to make something like this but really simple [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/530338](http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/530338)

Lets say i have 5 swf files

and say i want the first 3 to play one after the other, then in my main flash file it will stop and ask to play file 4 or 5 (kind of like a question ‘do you want to do this’ ‘or this’)

what i want to know is do i load the swf’s a differnt way or can i just do a GotoAndPlay at a certain frame.

i would really like some help with this and i hope my explanation is enough, i know what i want to do is really simple i just cant find a guide or anything that covers this.

The reason i want to do it like this is that i have been making an ‘interactive movie’, where the user chooses what the main character should do. and i have all the different sections as separate swf files, so really all i want to do is tie them together and in between that just a question for the user to choose what happens next, and then based on that the story chages to a different swf file, see i dont mind loading them all in, and then just having the time line skip to the start of the one i want.

thanks in advance