Help closing a movieclip

programming flash
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I know that lightbox effects were created if Flash wasn’t present and I’m not attempting to learn how to use lighbox … but I’m trying to create that same feeling of a movie clip when it opens for my online portfolio.

I have a button instance that opens a black screen at 95% opacity covering the entire site and showing one piece of my work. What I need to know how to do is create a code that will close that black screen just by clicking on it and going back to the previous screen.

www.mvadesigns.com

That’s my site and right now all thats there are images that are really only 3x4inches and thats not big enough and I want them to be able to be viewed larger. Hence why I want them to be opened in a lightbox type screen, but I can’t figure out how to return to my previous screen once the lightboxish screen is loaded …

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so that fast I found it out and it was freaking simple and I feel dumb, but anyone else who’s wondering the code is beyond simple and im sure everyone already knows it

just create a button over the image on its hit state and just use

on(release)
{
this.unloadMovie();
}

3

There are simpler and more efficient ways to do it. on(release) can be replaced by an onclipevent (or one of those scary AS3 eventlistener thingamabobs)

EDIT: So you don’t have to use an invisible button.