a very simple unloadMovie question... really, you have my word

[Ericinho]

surely newbie questions don't come more newbie than this one...

when do you need to use the unloadMovie command.

I understand when you want a movie not to be loaded anymore,
but also when you load external SWF files in a MC and the user can select a new one by clicking...

or, do the external SWF's simply stack up one over the other. And Flash automatically replaces one for the other (and therefore making the unload obsolete)???

Thanks :)

[Mortimer Jazz]

If you load a movie in to, say, level10, and then you load another movie in to level 10 then the first will be deleted and replaced by the second, but there are occassions where you may just want to unload a movie without replacing it - usually based on a user event. That's when it comes into play.

:)

[Ericinho]

okay, thanks for the clear answer :)