loadMovie is ignoring me

[l_zyboy]

hi... i've searched the forum for an answer to no avail, so excuse me for asking if it's been asked before, but i'm well stuck.

i have the following code to load external .swf's into a container movieclip in my movie:

stop();
externals_mc.loadMovie("home.swf");

_root.contact_btn.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("contact.swf", "externals_mc");
};
_root.portfolio_btn.onRelease = function() {
_root.externals_mc.loadMovie("portfolio.swf");
};
_root.home_btn.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("home.swf", _root.externals_mc);
};

as you can see i'm trying a few different ways of getting it to work, but all that happens is the "home.swf" loads in in the first place, but none of my buttons will load any clips to replace it.
any ideas?

[ojc1]

Why not just use

on (release) {
external_mc.loadMovie("portfolio.swf");
}

on the buttons
+

[l_zyboy]

awesome. thanks very much!

[PixelAddict]

i have simmilar problems

when i use the code as shown above it works fine

but when i load the external movies from another server is goes wrong.
then i have the same effect zyboy

like

on (release) {
_root.site.man.artists.container.loadMovie("http://users.pandora.be/sixofour/sixofoursite/test-site/partyartists5.swf");
}

but

on (release) {
_root.site.man.artists.container.loadMovie("partya rtists5.swf");
}

works fine

any ideas?

[green_eye]

you should get a sandbox violation error

[PixelAddict]

? sandbox?

and no im not getting any errors

grtz n thx

[PixelAddict]

? sandbox?

and no im not getting any errors

grtz n thx