# Checking if movie is loaded?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-if-movie-is-loaded/258172>\
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**Created:** [April 21, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-if-movie-is-loaded/258172 "2008-04-21T16:30:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlashAndy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FlashAndy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlashAndy)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-if-movie-is-loaded/258172/1 "2008-04-21T16:30:56Z")

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Hi Guys, need some assistance her. I have a project that currently is near comlpetion but I have just had to ad an intro movie that plays while the user selects from a menu on the left. There are two menus in play here, initial menu then a sub menu then another final menu. these are on 3 frames respectively. What I need to do is load the into movie into a placeholder on Frame 1, then when the user clicks to go to frame 2 to the next menu, the intro movie keeps playing rather than reloading from the beginning. Then I need to be able to reload the intro file from the beginning if the user click back to frame 2 from frame 3 of the main timeline. So I need some code to

A: Initially load the external intro.swf into container (Already got this bit)

B: Check to see if the intro.swf is loaded and if so leave it running and not reload it.

C: Check to see if the intro.swf is unloaded and if so, load it!

I’m currently trying this code but to no avail.

**Frame 1 (Main Timeline)**  
loadMovie(“swf\INTRO\Intro.swf”,"\_root.main\_container");  
\_root.currentmovie==“Intro”;

**Frame 2 (Main Timeline)**  
if(\_root.currentmovie==“Intro”){  
// Do nothing  
}  
else{  
loadMovie(“swf\INTRO\Intro.swf”,"\_root.main\_container");  
}

**Frame 3 (Main Timeline)**  
unloadMovie(\_root.main\_container);  
\_root.currentmovie="";

Any suggestions would be helpful as I’m running out of time on this.

P.S. I have three instances of the container - 1 on each frame.

Andy