Accessing events from externally loaded swf file

hello,
I have an swf file developed in flash 8. After loading that
file into SWF Loader control in flex builder 3, how can we access
the controls and events present in that particular file ?

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> hello,
> I have an swf file developed in flash 8. After loading
> that
> file into SWF Loader control in flex builder 3, how can
we access the
> controls
> and events present in that particular file ?
I think you'll need to use localConnection.

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