# Transitions between External SWFs Tutorial
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/63011
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/63011 "2004-09-02T09:00:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ianclarke](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ianclarke)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/63011/1 "2004-09-02T09:00:25Z")
Hi all,
I can do the tutorial and it work absolutley fine.
But for my purposes, the actions don’t work, if my buttons themselves are within movie clips. I need to animate my buttons which load the external swf’s. Is there a simple solution?
Cheers,
Ian
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/63011/2 "2004-09-02T14:39:10Z")
if they are within mc’s just point the actions at \_root.container instead of just container
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/63011/3 "2004-09-02T14:47:57Z")
‘within movieclips’ is close to as vague as you can get. Are they in the main movie, in the external swfs, which are the parent movieclips, … ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2004, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transitions-between-external-swfs-tutorial/63011/4 "2004-09-03T08:32:44Z")
Thanks Slickeye,
You the Man! That worked perfect.