# Thumbnail + hammer

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thumbnail-hammer/254623
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 13, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thumbnail-hammer/254623 "2008-03-13T17:21:01Z")
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### Author: ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/thumbnail-hammer/254623/1 "2008-03-13T17:21:01Z")

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hi

Right I’ve taken kipura’s thumbnail tut and hit it with my brain.

ATM I have it that the thumbnails load, then the large images load, using MovieClipLoader.

however I want to load the big picture on the thumbnail button, and to check if it is already loaded.

as the MCL declares targetMC, I want to somehow stick it in a variable so when I press a thumbnail it says

```auto
 
if (variable* !=loaded){
myMCL.loadClip(image*,_root.bigpreview.picture["img"+i]
}

```

targetMC = \_level0.bigpreview.picture.img10

the idea I had was strip targetMC, stick “loaded” into a “variable” array according to the img number.

would this work? should I have seperate MCLoaders for the thumbnails and large images?

thanks