# Tricky button question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-button-question/103395>\
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**Created:** [March 4, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-button-question/103395 "2004-03-04T18:52:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![brintonwhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@brintonwhite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brintonwhite)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-button-question/103395/1 "2004-03-04T18:52:53Z")

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Ok, I need to know a little actionscript and hope you will be able to help - I have always found replies here.

I have my main movie with home, contact and links buttons (in fact they are movie clips with buttons in them - I intend to animate these buttons eventually) - my home button movie clip has an instance name of home\_mc and the button inside this has an instance name of home\_button

These buttons have simple actionscript to load external swf files at level 1

What i need is some actionscript code that I can put on my home fla that tells the home button in my main FLA to disable. This will stop the home movie reloading if I press the button again - you see, the home movie loads itself with actionscript at the final frame of my main fla and I don’t want it to load again if I press the home button. Am I making sense?

In fact I have uploaded a file to my server that contains some very simple fla files with these buttons and associated fla files. They were done for another person on the forum but I got no reply.  
Many thanks. I have great confidence in this forum and await your reply.

[http://www.galaxymusic.co.uk/oldnewbie.html](http://www.galaxymusic.co.uk/oldnewbie.html)