# Help needed with \_visible

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-with--visible/271346>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 22, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-with--visible/271346 "2008-09-22T02:58:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Julian500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@Julian500](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Julian500)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-with--visible/271346/1 "2008-09-22T02:58:23Z")

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I’m trying to make a photo site, pretty standard main page with subpages as galleries. I figured I would have the subpage SWF files load once the main page is loaded, set them to visible=false, and then once the user clicks a link they will be changed to true. In my example here, I’m trying to create a link to a “Portrait” page. For some reason I can get the swf to load, but then I can’t get it to remain invisible. It always pops up immediately. The code I have is:

loadMovie(“portrait.swf”,portraitMC);  
\_root.portraitMC.\_visible = false;

I created a movieclip symbol (I have double checked all the instance names) that is a box the size of the stage, called portraitMC.

Can anybody tell me why I can’t get it to dissappear??

Thank you very much!

Julian