# Buttons not working - When trying to LoadMovie

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-not-working-when-trying-to-loadmovie/118515
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**Created:** [August 6, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-not-working-when-trying-to-loadmovie/118515 "2004-08-06T06:31:28Z")
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### Author: ![serket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@serket](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/serket)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-not-working-when-trying-to-loadmovie/118515/1 "2004-08-06T06:31:28Z")

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[size=2]Hello- I’m looking for some help with a seemingly basic loadMovie type flash site. I implemented the ideas from this tutorial\>\> [/size][[size=2][color=#800080]http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full\_site.htm[/color][/size]](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm)[size=2] though my site has kind of a photo gallery theme. This may be a little complicated and I will try to be as specific as possible. I created a web site based on a gallery tutorial and the tutorial mentioned above. The gallery has one top/main loading screen and a bottom thumbnail scroller- does this sound familiar to anyone 🙂 The design also has left and right scroll buttons on the ends of the thumbnail scroller- I modified this gallery design with additional next and previous arrow buttons to the left and right of the main loading screen. And the buttons have this actionscript\>\>

on (release) {  
loadMovie(“clip”+(\_level0.current\_clip+1)+".swf", “\_root.screen”);  
\_level0.current\_clip = \_level0.current\_clip+1;  
}

And negative values for the previous arrow/button.

I also included a \>\> \_root.screen.loadMovie(“clip1.swf”);\_level0.current\_clip = 1;

which is located on an “actions layer” in order to have a photo loaded on the main screen (instead of screen being blank)

I hope I’m not leaving anything out.

Anyway I would like to add a few navigation buttons that would load a completely different thumbnail menu. So I tried creating a fla file that has just the navigation buttons with a \>\> \_root.scroll.loadMovie(“menuthumb1.swf”);\_level0.current\_clip = 1;

The thumbnail scroller loads when I publish preview but the thumbnail scroll buttons do not work (the same thing happens whether I try to load the scroller separately or with the main loading screen). Also when I try to load the main screen with the next and previous buttons - there is still no response from the arrow buttons. I also find it to be strange that I don’t receive an error message when I publish preview.

Does anyone have a suggestion? Any remedies? 🙂

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