# Keep current swf visible, until a new swf has loaded into it's place?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keep-current-swf-visible-until-a-new-swf-has-loaded-into-its-place/255893
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 27, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keep-current-swf-visible-until-a-new-swf-has-loaded-into-its-place/255893 "2008-03-27T23:17:27Z")
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### Author: ![toffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@toffe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toffe)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keep-current-swf-visible-until-a-new-swf-has-loaded-into-its-place/255893/1 "2008-03-27T23:17:27Z")

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I’ve got a holder movie clip where I can load different swf’s into, by clicking buttons. I’m using the MovieClipLoader.

Because I’m going to use a loader layer (showing percent completed of download) with **alpha to it** , I don’t want the current swf to dissappear until a new swf has completed loading. If I could get this working the current swf would show through the alpha layer untill a new swf is loaded.

How can I achieve this?

This is a part of the code I’m using now:

```auto
button1.onRelease = function() {
    loader._visible = true;
    mcl.loadClip("swf1.swf",holder);
}

button2.onRelease = function() {
    loader._visible = true;
    mcl.loadClip("swf2.swf",holder);
}

```

When I use the code above, the current swf dissappears imediately when a button is clicked and a new swf begins to load.

I could use more than one holder, but then how would I know which one I’m currently using? … and there must be a better way to do it.

Thank you.