# Load Movie - Please Help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-please-help/101889
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**Created:** [February 16, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-please-help/101889 "2004-02-16T23:20:33Z")
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### Author: ![freiredelima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7c8e57/32.png) [@freiredelima](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freiredelima)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-please-help/101889/1 "2004-02-16T23:20:33Z")

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Hello!

In the stage of the site I am building there’s a menu with 5 different buttons. Each one of these buttons loads an external movie (.swf) into a target in the stage.

Everything works well, but if I press the same button more than one time in a row it loads the same movie again and again. I mean, suppose I press Button 1. That loads Movie 1. If I press Button 1 again it loads Movie 1 another time, even though Movie 1 was already loaded.

I guess what I am trying to ask is: how can I write I script to check if a certain movie is already loaded before loading it again? How can I write something like the following script in Flash?

On Release  
If “Movie 1” is already loaded  
Then Do Nothing  
Else  
Load “Movie 1”

Thank you!