# Movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclips/160310>\
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**Created:** [August 25, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclips/160310 "2005-08-25T00:18:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![nath\_y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9e5f3/32.png) [@nath\_y](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nath_y)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclips/160310/1 "2005-08-25T00:18:34Z")

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Hi there

I have a question please. I would like to know how does a movie clip know that it has to stop/fadeout etc and new movie clip should load.

for eg

I have 3 buttons&movie clips. Button1 has movieclip1 attached to it, Button2 has movieclip2 attached to it , Button has movieclip3 attached to it.

What I would like to know is that say, I press button1 and movieclip1 starts playing and then somebody clicks on button3 how does movieclip1 that it needs to stop and movieclip3 needs to start playing! (I know I could put a close button on each movie clip so users can close each clip before they press another button)

Theres plenty of examples but here is one to show you what I mean

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Thank you for your help…

Is it done through having one empty movie clip and loading external swf files in it?,But I would vale any suggestions…

cheers  
yogesh