Embeding a swf in another swf

Question

Hello, heres what I'm looking to do:
I am trying to create a project completely in flash player,
however its very large (its basically a tutorial for a coding
language called "magic")
I want to seperate it out a bit, basically one main flash
file that acts as a menu system with buttons to send you to
different sections of the tutorial, and then I want to make a bunch
of individual flash files for each page of those sections.
How would I go about calling a swf from within a swf file, or
preferably embedding multiple swf files into the main swf file.
This would allow me to make a bunch of complicated timeline
animations without having a completely unmanageable single
timeline.
Or if you have another possible suggestion on how to more
easily seperate functions/animations I'm certainly open to other
idea's. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

This is pretty simple once you get the hang of it. Create an
empty movieclip and place it on your stage. You can do this with
either code or by actually creating it in your library. Call it
holder_mc. position it where you would like your other movies to
load. Again you can do this by code or by physically moving it.
//This is how to do it with code:
//STEP 1 create your empty movie clip and give it your name/
place it in the next available level
_root.createEmptyMovieClip ( "holder_mc" ,
_root.getNextHighestDepth() )
//position the holder mc
_root.holder_mc._x = 50
_root.holder_mc._y = 50
//create a button and place it in the root - then attach code
that loads your external .swf into your holder mc
homeButton_btn.onPress = function(){
_root.holder_mc.loadMovie("home.swf") }