FLASH: Loading music movie twice (again)

[Michael Galvin]

I have my music in a seperate .swf file which I'm loading at the appropriate point, but now I've changed my movie file so that you can skip to 2 different points during the introduction (using labels, rather than seperate movies)

 

So now I want to load the music at 2 different points, and if the timeline hits the first instance, it shouldn't load the music again at the second instance.

 

In pseudo-code, I have

 

set variable musicloaded=yes

load movie music.swf

 

at the first point.  And

 

if musicloaded="no"

    load movie music.swf

endif

 

at the second point.  I've examined the variable, and it is being set to "yes" at the first instance, but it's still re-loading the music movie, so the music plays for a few seconds, stops, and starts all over again.

 

Is there a better way of doing this, or what am I doing wrong?

 

Michael