# Simple(?) Problem: Disable button after loading a movie? (Flash MX)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-problem-disable-button-after-loading-a-movie-flash-mx/143002>\
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**Created:** [April 2, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-problem-disable-button-after-loading-a-movie-flash-mx/143002 "2005-04-02T06:03:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-problem-disable-button-after-loading-a-movie-flash-mx/143002/1 "2005-04-02T06:03:32Z")

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OK, i have a navigation with buttons that load external movie clips into a empty movie clip. Yes, very simple.

Im sure some of you experience this problem, if i click on the button to load the swf repeatedly, it will re-load the movie repeatedly (very annoying). I want to disable the button after it has been clicked once, and re-enable it when another button is clicked.

The buttons reside inside a movie clip on the main stage.

The empty movie clip resides on the main stage.

heres the code for one of the buttons:

on (release) {  
\_root.target\_clip.loadMovie(“updates\_nav.swf”,“1”);  
}

I just want it to load once then disable the button. I tried the button.enabled=false into the brackets but i get no results.

heres my page so far:  
[http://www.poeticgarble.com/swf/circles.html](http://www.poeticgarble.com/swf/circles.html)

(no preloader yet, just updates loaded using a modification of the guestbook found on this site)