# VERY quick question (honestly)
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-quick-question-honestly/17350
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 4, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-quick-question-honestly/17350 "2003-04-04T02:45:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mindfriction](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mindfriction)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-quick-question-honestly/17350/1 "2003-04-04T02:45:25Z")
Hi there,
If a variable is declared in a movie as global (\_global). Is this variable available to a movie which loads this movie via LoadMovie() ?
i.e. parentMovie loads childMovie.swf
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-quick-question-honestly/17350/2 "2003-04-04T03:42:26Z")
Yeah, but I tried that before and for some reason it kept resetting my variable.
Instead of getting all upset about it, I just put the variable in the main timeline and called it as \_root.variableName
It works with loaded movies that way as well.
I don’t know if I was doing something wrong with \_global, or if it is a bug, I didn’t mess with it too much because I just wanted to get the script done with…lol.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/very-quick-question-honestly/17350/3 "2003-04-04T04:51:41Z")
LOL… yeah Im at the same stage where i just want to get things working. I figured i could post this question before I started breaking things, …Oh Well 🙂