# Null button/mc & preloader queston (newbie-style)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/null-button-mc-preloader-queston-newbie-style/119595>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 16, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/null-button-mc-preloader-queston-newbie-style/119595 "2004-08-16T18:47:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![rberry88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rberry88](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rberry88)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/null-button-mc-preloader-queston-newbie-style/119595/1 "2004-08-16T18:47:38Z")

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Okay, here’s my site [www.rberry883.home.comcast.net](http://www.rberry883.home.comcast.net) that I’m working on (slowly) and made all my buttons (across the top) as movie clips. They all work fine but I want to know how I can disable the one for the page you are on. For example, if I hit the one for Gallery, you go to the gallery page but you can still click the gallery button and it reloads the page.

Also, under PC Stuff, I have a thumbnail gallery that I should have a preloader on for the thumbnails and for the component itself but I don’t know where it would/should go (on main timeline, in external .swf, etc). I read some of the preloader tutorials but they seem to be more for loading an entire site which I don’t want.

Any help is appreciated or just help me out with some links.