# Variable Question?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-question/154514>\
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**Created:** [July 10, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-question/154514 "2005-07-10T18:52:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![RickHoeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@RickHoeye](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RickHoeye)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-question/154514/1 "2005-07-10T18:52:00Z")

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Ok - hoping I can communicate this effectively. 🙂

I’m working on a CD-Rom project. I have a menu with 13 buttons. When you click a button, the menu disappears, the background zooms in and plays a video. When it’s finished, it zooms back out and the menu reappears.

The zooming in, calling a video and zooming out is in ONE mc. Since I have to do this 13 times (per each button click), instead of having 13 of the same movie clips (mc\_room1, mc\_room2, etc) is there a way to pass a variable so that it will play the zoom sequence, play whatever number of video, then do it’s regular animation to zoom out?

Does that make sense at all? I hope so. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!!

thanks - R