If movie is loaded, dont reload it script??

[chartmakers]

Hey guys. I have a movie with 2 buttons. Each button will load a separate movie on top of level0. But if you click button 1, or button 2, and its movie is already loaded, it reloads it (obviously) what can i use to have it check to see if the movie is already loaded, so it wont reload it again??

Thanks all!

 

[oldnewbie]

Sure it reloads it, but what's the problem with that? Since after normally downloading on the initial press, the movie is now cached, it should show up immediately on a second press.
Don't you want it to be "re-loaded" again if the button is pressed a second or whatever time?

 

[monkeydon]

I havn't found a better way to do this than to just set a variable when you load a movie. When the time comes to load the movie only if it isn't currently loaded, you can check the state of the variable.

Of course wherever the movie could get unloaded, you would have to change the variable's state here too.