# Stacking movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stacking-movies/29138>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 22, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stacking-movies/29138 "2003-08-22T19:20:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mikol27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@Mikol27](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mikol27)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stacking-movies/29138/1 "2003-08-22T19:20:12Z")

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Ok, I have a stack of movies (six, one ontop another) on the stage.

I’m trying to make it that when you mouse over a button elsewhere on the stage it makes #1 the top movie clip- and subsequently if clicked would play that #1 movie clip. THen a second button moused over would bring movie clip #2 to the top and ready to be played.

Any ideas on how to control this?

I’ve been messing with setProperties til I’m blue in the face, but you can always seem to see one of the clips ontop of the one that is getting played.

I attempted swapDepths- but this didn’t seem to work either.

Suggestions appreciated.

-M

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stacking-movies/29138/2 "2003-08-22T19:46:53Z")

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I would use swapDepths - or, have your movieClips contain only a picture then when you click on the button, dynamically load the movie into another movieClip. Loading movies in will take the top level.