# Enabling and disabling buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/enabling-and-disabling-buttons/292862>\
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**Created:** [July 20, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/enabling-and-disabling-buttons/292862 "2009-07-20T16:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![pixeltheatre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@pixeltheatre](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pixeltheatre)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/enabling-and-disabling-buttons/292862/1 "2009-07-20T16:33:17Z")

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i have a movie with this button which disables it upon loading of external .swf file:

on(release) {  
loadMovieNum (“lg\_01.swf”, 2);  
i1.enabled = false;  
}

the site in progress: [http://www.pixeltheatre.com/c2m\_flash/](http://www.pixeltheatre.com/c2m_flash/)

How do i tell said .swf file to re-enable the “i1” instance from the original .swf file it loaded into? I guess where I’m getting lost is how to tell one .swf to affect another.

I think if i knew this little tidbit, I would most definitely be able to have more control over my sites.

I’m a self-taught novice actionscripter and obviously don’t know enough to do something as simple as this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Sean