# Passing variables to a loaded movie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-loaded-movie/120583
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**Created:** [August 25, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-loaded-movie/120583 "2004-08-25T15:57:26Z")
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### Author:  [@bscene](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bscene)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-loaded-movie/120583/1 "2004-08-25T15:57:26Z")
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]I have a navigation bar that I have loaded into level3 of my main movie. When the user clicks one of the navigation buttons they should be taken to a specific point on the timeline of a movie that I have loaded into level2 of my main movie. Currently it will only go to the specified frame if the button is pressed a second time.
Here is the action I have for the buttons…
on (release) {
frame = “af”; // this value is different for each button
unloadMovieNum (2);
loadMovieNum (“globes.swf”, 2, “GET”);
}
On the first frame of my level2 movie (globes.swf), I have the following action to check for the value of “frame” and then take the appropriate action
if (frame != “”) {
gotoAndPlay(frame);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(“rotate”);
}
I am really puzzled on how to accomplish this.
Any help is greatly appreciated. [/size][/font]
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### Author:  [@stringy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stringy)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-loaded-movie/120583/2 "2004-08-25T16:27:59Z")
> [@bscene](#):
>
> [font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]I have a navigation bar that I have loaded into level3 of my main movie. When the user clicks one of the navigation buttons they should be taken to a specific point on the timeline of a movie that I have loaded into level2 of my main movie. Currently it will only go to the specified frame if the button is pressed a second time.
>
> Here is the action I have for the buttons…
>
> on (release) {
> frame = “af”; // this value is different for each button
> unloadMovieNum (2);
> loadMovieNum (“globes.swf”, 2, “GET”);
> }
>
> On the first frame of my level2 movie (globes.swf), I have the following action to check for the value of “frame” and then take the appropriate action
>
> if (frame != “”) {
> gotoAndPlay(frame);
> } else {
> gotoAndPlay(“rotate”);
> }
>
> I am really puzzled on how to accomplish this.
> Any help is greatly appreciated. [/size][/font]
i don` think you need this line
unloadMovieNum (2);
when you are loading in movies, you have to make sure that it is fully loaded before you can tell it to do anything.so basically you need a simple preloader type script.