# Changing Function to load mc instead of movie using variables
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-function-to-load-mc-instead-of-movie-using-variables/60001
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 5, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-function-to-load-mc-instead-of-movie-using-variables/60001 "2004-08-05T15:21:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jillymo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jillymo)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-function-to-load-mc-instead-of-movie-using-variables/60001/1 "2004-08-05T15:21:49Z")
I have a movie set up with states (as in United States) as clickable mc’s. They are currently set so that when clicked on, a new movie is loaded into a container mc and the state is then deactivated, or can no longer be clicked.
I would like to change this so that rather than loading outside swf’s it would load mc’s so I can keep everything within the same movie. How would I alter the current code to allow for this?
Current code:
[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1]//mcs labelled mystate0,mystate1 etc
//swfs to load called movie0.swf,movie1.swf etc
createEmptyMovieClip(“container”, 5);
for (var i = 0; i\<52; i++) {
this[“myState”+i].ivar = i;
this[“myState”+i].onPress = function() {
loadMovie(“movie”+this.ivar+".swf", “container”);
this.enabled = false;
};
}[/SIZE][/COLOR]
I know how to use attachMovie to load a mc, rather than the loadMovie to load an swf, but not sure how to work in the variables. I was planning on calling the mc’s mystate0question, mystate1question, etc.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-function-to-load-mc-instead-of-movie-using-variables/60001/2 "2004-08-05T15:43:27Z")
Ack, I forgot to set the linkage to export the mc for as, now I just need to know how to set it up with the mc being loaded as a variable…
so, I have changed
[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1]//mcs labelled mystate0,mystate1 etc
//swfs to load called movie0.swf,movie1.swf etc
createEmptyMovieClip(“container”, 5);
for (var i = 0; i\<52; i++) {
this[“myState”+i].ivar = i;
this[“myState”+i].onPress = function() {
[COLOR=DarkRed]loadMovie(“movie”+this.ivar+".swf", “container”);[/COLOR]
this.enabled = false;
};[/SIZE][/COLOR]
to
[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1]//mcs labelled mystate0,mystate1 etc
//swfs to load called movie0.swf,movie1.swf etc
createEmptyMovieClip(“container”, 5);
for (var i = 0; i\<52; i++) {
this[“myState”+i].ivar = i;
this[“myState”+i].onPress = function() {
[COLOR=DarkRed]\_root.container.attachMovie(“mystate0question”,“question”,10);[/COLOR]this.enabled = false;
};
}[/SIZE][/COLOR]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-function-to-load-mc-instead-of-movie-using-variables/60001/3 "2004-08-05T17:13:47Z")
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