# Beginners Questions regarding initialisation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-questions-regarding-initialisation/232077>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 11, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-questions-regarding-initialisation/232077 "2007-07-11T05:42:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![media\_penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@media\_penguin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/media_penguin)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-questions-regarding-initialisation/232077/1 "2007-07-11T05:42:56Z")

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Hi All!

My first post - and probably is a very basic question - but how do you make something run only ONCE, and then never again. I am attempting to create a flash site which changes pages by loading different scenes - but everytime I go back to the home page (ie., scene 1, keyframe 1), I don’t want all the “initialiser” stuff like loading xml files, and setting global variables etc., to take place again.

Probably something very elementary like “onFirstLoad” or something… 🙂

Hope I’ve made my first post somewhat understood and semi-coherent. 🙂

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,  
Media Penguin.