# createEmptyMovieClip() and disable clicking

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createemptymovieclip-and-disable-clicking/95536>\
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**Created:** [November 26, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createemptymovieclip-and-disable-clicking/95536 "2003-11-26T19:44:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jambo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jambo)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createemptymovieclip-and-disable-clicking/95536/1 "2003-11-26T19:44:37Z")

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I have a image gallery that lists images dynamically and when you click the thumbnails the larger image loads on top of the thumbnails in a new “window” but i need to make it so you can’t blindly click through the large image onto the thumbs and make a “back” button to close kill the large preview window.

I’m hoping there is a:

thnail.createEmptyMovieClip(‘blagh’){  
clickable = false;  
}

type command but i guess that’d be asking for too much.

any suggestions?