# Telltarget swf
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 2, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602 "2003-02-02T13:43:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@LATO](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LATO)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/1 "2003-02-02T13:43:44Z")
Hi,
How can I control a swf if I load it into another swf? So tellTarget or something but
tellTarget (“container”) {
stop();
}
doesn’t work…
Thanx
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/2 "2003-02-02T13:47:43Z")
forget tellTarget (that was flash 5) - try something like this:
```auto
_root.container.yourMC.gotoAndPlay(1);
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/3 "2003-02-02T13:54:12Z")
I use this to load the swf:
```php
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1);
loadMovie("car.swf", "container");
container._x = -100;
container._y = -100;
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/4 "2003-02-02T13:56:49Z")
that’s fine…
using **\_root.container.yourMC.gotoAndPlay(1);**
yourMC would be the name of a movieclip inside your car.swf!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/5 "2003-02-02T14:00:12Z")
Yeah, I know. (duh;))
But it’s the car.swf that has to be controlled so I deleted .yourMC and it doesn’t work
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/6 "2003-02-02T14:03:06Z")
controlled!?
…in wich way?
would you like to move it around using the arrow keys or something like that!?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/7 "2003-02-02T14:04:43Z")
next en prevFrame
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-swf/12602/8 "2003-02-02T18:45:30Z")
> \*Originally posted by jerry \*
> \*\*forget tellTarget (that was flash 5) - try something like this:
```auto
_root.container.yourMC.gotoAndPlay(1);
```
\*\*
Actually tellTarget was Flash 3 and 4 and was deprecated in Flash 5 with the new dot syntax 😉
I believe 5 still used it often because many Flash 5 coders were used to Flash 4 syntax and such. This is just my own theory, I don’t know exactly why so many Flash 5 tutorials use tellTarget instead of the dot syntax version.