accessing variables and actionscript in externally loaded Swf from main movie

[balaakrs]

Can any one teach me how to access the variable and action script in a externally loaded swf from Main Movie and vice versa

[Sgaspar11]

To path to the function you path to it as if it were a part of your main flash file. Just where the root used to be for the external SWF, it is now the movie clip it was loaded into.

[balaakrs]

Thank you for your reply.
main thing i'm struggling is how to name the loaded swf. Just to make thing clearer can you give the paths to acces the following

i have a main movie with a preloader and four buttons. on clicking the buttons will load the respective swf in to the movie. now i have a variable in the external swf (bala.swf) named Age and a function findage() . now i need to access these variable and function from the main movie and how can i access the function that lies in the 2nd frame of the main movie (for example loadmov() )from the bala.swf.

i also have question. which one of these is best to use for loading swf in to main movie loadmovie or loadmovienum or movicliploader class
.

[Sgaspar11]

I use loadmovie to load in my external .swfs.

As for accessing that function it'd look something like this.

_level1.movieClip.functionName();

Where movieClip is the name of the shell you loaded your MC into.

Mess around with this and if it doesn't work, remove the _level1 and try it without.

Scott

[balaakrs]

I'll try that . Can you tell is there any naming methods for naming the swf that's loaded in to a movie clip .
for example main.swf is the main movie. in that i load sub.swf (having var named counter)in to a movieclip container .
can i access the counter variable by this way.

_level1.container.counter
or
_level 1.container.sub.counter

can we name the loaded swf by the above method . if there is any methd to name it please tell me