# Is it possible to loadMovie only once?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-loadmovie-only-once/215041>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 3, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-loadmovie-only-once/215041 "2007-02-03T10:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![eyebum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@eyebum](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eyebum)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-loadmovie-only-once/215041/1 "2007-02-03T10:27:44Z")

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Hey there…  
I have a nice looking expanding vertical menu. It works great. The buttons call up external swf files and load them into a content area. Wonderful.  
The one thing I don’t have is any content in the content area when the main swf first loads.  
Of course, I can put a simple loadMovie command in, but this causes problems with the buttons.

Is it possible to run a load Movie only once, even though the swf keeps coming back to the same frame?

thanks…

Chris