# Keep Buttons From Loading External Movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keep-buttons-from-loading-external-movies/299442>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 5, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keep-buttons-from-loading-external-movies/299442 "2009-11-05T05:30:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![BUroKHUli](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/burokhuli/32/190_2.png) [@BUroKHUli](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BUroKHUli)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keep-buttons-from-loading-external-movies/299442/1 "2009-11-05T05:30:17Z")

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Hi there,

I got this tutorial about external movie loading. It works but it seems that their is a little problem with it. How do you keep the button from loading an external movie once it’s loaded already?

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/loadmovie.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/loadmovie.htm)

Let’s BUTTON-1 loaded MOVIE-1, now when you click on BUTTON-1 again it will load the movie even if it’s loaded. How do you do it like only when another button is clicked will it load the movie for that button.

Thanks