http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T11:31:54 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00001999.html#72659 Setting a variable (such as container_mc.myVar) inside container_mc.onLoadComplete has inconsistent results. Sometimes the variable is wiped before the SWF loaded into the movieclip can access the variable (e.g. this.myVar) and never available. Sometimes the variable is available and in this case, it's available immediately. Results should be consistent and either the variables should always be available for the child SWF, or never available. <br /><br />On the other hand, I tried using onLoadInit and the variable is always present, but sometimes not available soon enough. So I'm forced to set the variable in onLoadInit, and create an interval on the first frame of the child SWF to wait until the variable exists before continuing.<br /><br />My only other option is to set variables on _root, which I'm trying to avoid because of design constraints. (CS3/Actionscript2) thenetdragon 0 0 2007-08-25T11:50:48