# Loading/Unloading External SWF's
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-unloading-external-swfs/118282
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-unloading-external-swfs/118282 "2004-08-04T07:02:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Aesis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Aesis)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-unloading-external-swfs/118282/1 "2004-08-04T07:02:38Z")
Hello,
I have a question, I’m new so i dont know much 🙂
I am Using Flash MX ActionScript.
Anyways i have a series of buttons, and I would like them to each load a external SWF file into a movieclip. I have accomplished this so far but,
I would like it so that whenever I click a button it unloads any already loaded SWF file that is already there.
This is what I Have So far
on (release) {
loadMovie(“movie.swf”, this.movieholder);
}
lol not much,
but any help would be appreciated C:-)
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### Author:  [@e\_s\_x\_s](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/e_s_x_s)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-unloading-external-swfs/118282/2 "2004-08-04T08:55:22Z")
u can use unloadMovie(this.movieholder);
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### Author:  [@Aesis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Aesis)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-unloading-external-swfs/118282/3 "2004-08-04T18:03:03Z")
lol So Simple I don’t know why I didn’t think of it.
Thanks:rabbit:
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### Author:  [@mystique](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mystique)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-unloading-external-swfs/118282/4 "2004-08-05T05:08:42Z")
empty movie clip containers can only hold one thing at a time anyways, so when you click something new it will automatically unload the last one anyways
> [@Aesis](#):
>
> lol So Simple I don’t know why I didn’t think of it.
> Thanks:rabbit: