# This.loadMovie Trouble

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-loadmovie-trouble/168888>\
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**Created:** [November 10, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-loadmovie-trouble/168888 "2005-11-10T22:29:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![aspiring\_wings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@aspiring\_wings](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aspiring_wings)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-loadmovie-trouble/168888/1 "2005-11-10T22:29:06Z")

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I am new at this forum. I posted at [devshed.com](http://devshed.com). No help there. I am still trying to learn AS2.0 OOP as well. Any help would be appreciated.

I have an object that extends a movie clip. I would like to load an external clip within this class defininition like so:

```php
class Backdrop extends MovieClip;
  public function init():Void {
	this.loadMovie("backdrop.swf");
  }
}

```

When i do so, there i get this error: “Target not found: Target=“undefined” Base=”\_level0""

Now, i have also tried this:

```php
class Backdrop extends MovieClip {
  public function init():Void;
	loadMovie("backdrop.swf", this);
  }
}

```

That should do basically the same thing, but AS doesn’t allow it because the second parameter expects a MovieClip, not a Backdrop object.

Now if i manually enter the target with

```php
_root.backdrop.loadMovie("backdrop.swf");

```

that works, but it seems to me that defeats the purpose of putting it in the class definition in the first place. It is not abstract that way.

I hope i am making sense. Basically, i want to know if either  
(a) There is a way to trace the target of the this property or  
(b) If there is a way to force the loadMovie function to take subclass from the MovieClip object