# Tutorial problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [April 7, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608 "2003-04-07T14:35:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![p13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@p13](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/p13)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608/1 "2003-04-07T14:35:38Z")

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I’m using this tutorial I found on Kirupa to build a gallery on my site that I’m using to display my portfolio:

[Gallery](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm)

The problem I’m having is that when I load the gallery as an external swf into a blank movie clip on the timeline of another externally loaded swf the buttons don’t work, they don’t even appear. I’m pretty sure this has to do with the actionscript attached to them that targets \_root. I tried targeting \_parent but it didn’t help.

You can download my fla’s here: [p13 site](http://www.pagethirteen.com/p13_flash_site.zip)

Any help would be much appreciated…

-P.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608/2 "2003-04-07T15:07:37Z")

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replace all those **\_root** in the timeline and the buttons with **this** 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608/3 "2003-04-07T15:24:01Z")

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Pretty sure I tried that, but I’ll try again…

Thanks!

-P.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608/4 "2003-04-07T15:27:54Z")

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and… ? it didn’t work when you changed them? :-  
i tested it and everything worked fine. 😏

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608/5 "2003-04-07T15:54:41Z")

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Cool! I must have missed one the last time I tried it. Everything works now, thanks!

-P.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-problem/17608/6 "2003-04-07T15:56:11Z")

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anytime man 😉 =)