# Clearing the stage
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 9, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822 "2003-06-09T10:22:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@lbeetles](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lbeetles)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/1 "2003-06-09T10:22:54Z")
I have movies nested in movies, what i want to do is when you click on a button i want it to clear the whole stage and then load a frame.
I know that i could put unload each level on the action for the button, but i was just wondering if there is a short way of doing this with code.
Cheers
-Lee
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/2 "2003-06-09T10:35:18Z")
You mean like having an array with the various levels in it, the a for loop to go through and unload each one?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/3 "2003-06-09T10:46:11Z")
is that the only way of doing it, by having an array and then when the button i sclick it calls the array.
This way thou i have to find out all the levels all the movies load on and there is quite a few.
Is there any way of some code just to say Stage.clear(); or something like that or am i just wishing it is this simple.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/4 "2003-06-09T10:51:53Z")
Not that I’ve ever used, but someone else may be able to give a quicker way.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/5 "2003-06-09T10:54:35Z")
cheers for your replies Kit.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/6 "2003-06-09T11:53:11Z")
kit,
Could you please post with some example code on how the array would look and the actions for the button to call the array.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/clearing-the-stage/22822/7 "2003-06-09T12:01:10Z")
Now I think about it, you won’t even need the array, just the for loop. So say you have 5 movies loaded, it would be something like (and this won’t be perfect, it’s just out of my head):[AS]on (release) {
for (count=0; count\<5; count++) {
unloadMovieNum(count);
}
}[/AS] where count is your loop, and 5 the number of movies you have. If the number of movies is changeable, then store that as a variable and call it in the loop.