# Creating a button that will change when selected

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-button-that-will-change-when-selected/167020
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**Created:** [October 24, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-button-that-will-change-when-selected/167020 "2005-10-24T20:29:18Z")
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### Author: ![admsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@admsh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/admsh)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-button-that-will-change-when-selected/167020/1 "2005-10-24T20:29:18Z")

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hi all,

i’ve created “advanced” buttons as described in this tutorial:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button\_effect.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button_effect.htm)

i have a few of these, and when clicked they bring up an external swf into my \_root movie.

is there a way to make these buttons appear “clicked” once the external swf was loaded? and then “unclick” them once a different one is loaded?