Loadmovie with attachMovie

Hi, I don't know if anyone else has had this problem, but i
can't seem to solve it.
so i have a .fla and i'm loading an external swf into a
movieclip that exisits on the first frame of the .fla file using
movieClip.loadMovie. I want to attach a movieclip from the library
of the .fla i'm working in to the movieClip that i'm loading the
external swf into using movieClip.attachMovie. so the movieclip
should appear on top of the external swf. is this possible?

Ah, thank you, that make sense now. The solution you
suggested worked great.
I did also find two other solutions, for anyone else who
might read this. One is to essentially create an empty movieclip on
your timeline. From the linkage window for the empty movieclip, I
made sure I set the Class field to the name of the class I'd
written, something I didn't do previously. This attaches all the
class actionscript to the empty movieclip, and even automatically
runs the constructor when the empty movieclip is placed on the
timeline. It also automatically provides a 'reference' to the main
timeline when I refer to this.attachMovie() from inside the class.
So it worked, but isn't as elegant as doing everything from the
actionscript (unless you are building a component).
The last reference I came across is the
Object.registerClass() method used to attach as class to an object,
similar to using the Linkage method above. But I haven't
successfully tried it yet.
Thanks again for the help kglad,
dana.
Dana Sheikholeslami
Art Institute of California

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www.kglad.com/Files/tf
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picture._alpha=58.59375
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