# Variables across movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variables-across-movieclips/6696>\
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**Created:** [October 14, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variables-across-movieclips/6696 "2002-10-14T15:25:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaycee24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@Jaycee24](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jaycee24)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variables-across-movieclips/6696/1 "2002-10-14T15:25:55Z")

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Hello!, this is my 1st post here.

I have a movie which is made up:

Level0= my interface layout with buttons

Level1= the different sections of the site, are loaded into this level (eg. home.swf, aboutus.swf etc.)

Because each of these sections has both an ‘in’ and ‘out’ transition, i want to use variables (on the buttons) to control these external movies that are loaded into the main movie (im even starting to confuse myself :cyclops:

basically in a nutshell… can you use buttons which control a movie ,which has been loaded at another layer, using variables…

if so … how ?

:rambo: Thanks very much !!

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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:** [October 15, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variables-across-movieclips/6696/2 "2002-10-15T06:39:16Z")

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Welcome,

Well, yes, you have to put \_level0 in front (or \_levelN, depending on which level you want to talk to).

pom 🙂