# Help closing a movieclip
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-closing-a-movieclip/265866
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 13, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-closing-a-movieclip/265866 "2008-07-13T22:43:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mvadesigns](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mvadesigns)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-closing-a-movieclip/265866/1 "2008-07-13T22:43:55Z")
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](http://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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### Author:  [@mvadesigns](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mvadesigns)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-closing-a-movieclip/265866/2 "2008-07-13T22:47:30Z")
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();
}
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### Author:  [@gigaboost](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gigaboost)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-closing-a-movieclip/265866/3 "2008-07-13T23:17:02Z")
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.