How to load a swf in Main swf

[Pyroclasm]

Guys, i have been fighting with this. How do i load a swf file on to my main swf file's stage in a specific location and size, and with it on _level1? I want it to arrive with just a click of a button on the main stage.

[farafiro]

// make an empty MC with just an out line (circle or somthing) with
the size u want "i will call it holder"

// make a button and attach that code to it

on(release){
loadMovie("loadedMc.swf", target)
}


just remember to put both of the swfs in the same directory

[Pyroclasm]

thanks farafiro, that helps alot. So let me understand this, when you put something on a _leveln, it automatically stretches to the main timeline's swf movie. And the only way to get a external swf(external MC as i take it ppl say...not sure though) to appear in a location specifically with a certain scale is to put it in a empty or existing MC. Is this correct?

[farafiro]

1- what do u mean by "stretches "??
2- yep the only way is as u mentioned

[Pyroclasm]

oh, well what i ment by stretches was that if the external movie is 1" by 1", and the stage is bigger, the external mc is rescaled to fit. Thats all I ment. Well thanks for all your help

[farafiro]

no, it won't stretche. I think will only do that if u loaded it into a target one