# Buttons and If Statements

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-and-if-statements/239281>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 20, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-and-if-statements/239281 "2007-09-20T06:16:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sance21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Sance21](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sance21)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-and-if-statements/239281/1 "2007-09-20T06:16:18Z")

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## I’ve created a button that’s actually a movie clip. If I know my button’s going to incorporate complex rollout/rollover animations, then I normally convert it to a movie clip symbol. I need this button to load an external swf file onRelease. How do I integrate the following if statement:

on (release) {

if (\_root.currMovie == undefined) {

\_root.currMovie = “about\_us”;  
container.loadMovie(“about\_us.swf”);  
} else if (\_root.currMovie != “about\_us”) {  
if (container.\_currentframe \>= container.midframe) {

\_root.currMovie = “about\_us”;  
container.play();

}

}

## }

into this button function

this.onRelease = function(){

## }