One swf to another

I don't know if this can be done but here it goes. I have 2
flash anamation on my site. Both have several scenes in them. My
question is? When linking over from one swf. to another. Can you
script it to start at a specific scene or must you start at the
begining of the swf.
Thanks

from the loaded swf's main timeline:
MovieClip(parent.parent)
will reference the timeline to which the swf's loader has been added. so, to reference a variable (eg, scoreVar) on that timeline, use:
MovieClip(parent.parent).scoreVar

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How do I call one .SWF from another. I built a very beefy
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file. How do I call one from the other?
This will be embedded in an HTML file but I assume this is
superfluous to my question.
F.Z.

I think you should open that Another SWF (FLA),
and add some actionscript..
For example, you could create a movie clip, and write
actionscript in the
first keyframe:
loadMovie("
http://www.somewebpage.com/movie.swf",
this);
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beefy base .SWF, and
> want
> to add music overlay, and an intro slide show to the
exsting Flash
> animation,
> but put it in a second .FLA/.SWF file. How do I call one
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I am facing problem to pass variable from one swf to another.
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first of all:
this is the Flash Media Server and your problem is not
related to FMS....
second thing related to the "somewhat urgent" :
we, users on this forum, are not there to do your job... so
calm down otherwise no people will answer your question. This forum
is a free support forum that community of Flash developer use to
learn tricks and to solve problems.
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like a standard movieClip(only if there from the same domain or if
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* MovieClipLoader will do a better job, in your specify case,
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timing issues.
My final answer(lol) is the solution 2 with the
notice(*)

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