# Buttons loading and unloading Movie Clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-loading-and-unloading-movie-clips/210175>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 15, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-loading-and-unloading-movie-clips/210175 "2006-12-15T21:03:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![thehive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@thehive](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thehive)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-loading-and-unloading-movie-clips/210175/1 "2006-12-15T21:03:45Z")

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I have created a page with a scrolling buttons bar of thumbnail images. I would like to have large versions of the thumbnails load on the stage when a button is active and disappear when another button is made active.

I can achieve this by loading a swf for the large image into a movie clip on the stage. But I am wondering if there is a way to do this using a movie clip for the large image so that I can have an intro and outro animation as the large clip appears and disappears from the stage.

Also, is it more efficient to be loading a large number of swfs or stick with movie clips?

Any help anyone can provide would be great.

:jail: