# loadMovie, loadMovieNum, attatchMovie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 9, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079 "2003-07-09T08:01:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/1 "2003-07-09T08:01:49Z")
hello
My site successfully uses ‘attachMovie’ to grab some pages from the library. I use this method so that these key pages are preloaded as they are (loaded before frame 1)
I have now added a page that uses ‘loadMovie’. It’s a big one (119kB) and it has its own preloader. Eerything worked well when I tested it, but the buttons that used attachMovie no longer worked.
Any ideas please ?
Oh, and what is the difference between loadMovie and loadMovieNum ?
Many thanks
geoff
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/2 "2003-07-09T09:58:51Z")
loadMovie = load into target
loadMovieNum = load into level
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/3 "2003-07-09T10:30:42Z")
hey Geoff,
probably an addressing issue… could you post your code or attach your FLA? 🙂
and claudio,
you can use loadMovie to load into target (MovieClip) and level. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/4 "2003-07-09T11:00:43Z")
Only on expert mode, otherwise flash automatically replace loadMovie for loadMovieNum.
Right?
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/5 "2003-07-09T11:04:33Z")
i have no idea. 😛
i’ve never used the actions panel on normal mode. :crazy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/6 "2003-07-09T11:05:38Z")
Hmmm, i think i am right, ive read that somewhere…:-\
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/7 "2003-07-09T11:31:15Z")
yup… that’s right, i just checked it out. 😛
but that doesn’t mean you can’t use loadMovie to load into a level. 😉 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/8 "2003-07-09T11:34:33Z")
Yeah, i didnt want to get Geoff confused 😛
Oh well, you are right once again (-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/9 "2003-07-09T11:39:38Z")
nah… maybe i’m just stubborn. 😛 :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-loadmovienum-attatchmovie/25079/10 "2003-07-09T15:37:58Z")
Thanks for the info
i have solved it, I wasn’t using ‘unloadMovie’. I dodn’t think I had to. I thought that attachMovie and loadMovie were effectively the same in as much as they would load on top of the target host movie.
// my cut down code is:
on (press) {
```
_root.content.unloadMovie("test.swf");
```
// this movie (test) would have been loaded into content by a loadMovie action
}
on (release) {
\_root.content.attachMovie(“about”, “content”, 0);
// this movie (about) is the new movie to replace test.swf.
}
The code works but because I am not very confident and experienced in this, I can’t help feel that there is a “correct” way
What do you think please
Geoff