Can I make the loadmovie command wait?

[edog9]

here's my dilema. i'm making a site that has different movies for each of it's internal links. i have a brief "exiting" animation for the current page when the user clicks on another link. so i have a load movie command on the button, but i want the animation to play in the current movie before the new one loads. it is only about a second long animation, so is there a way into tricking flash into pausing a second before the load movie command kicks in??

eric

[JC Savior Productions]

Place the loadMovie action in the last frame of the SWF that needs to play first. Have the button press set a variable that determines what the next loaded movie will be, so that when the playing clip gets to the end it evaluates the variable and loads the coresponding movie.

[edog9]

makes sense, but i'm a moron and i wouldn't know how to begin setting and sending variables. mind helping out?

i want the button to load "exit.swf" so i would put the loadmovie command in the last frame, but without telling it what movie to load. in the "exit" button, i would tell it to put the variable "exit.swf" into that last frame. am i on track here? i just don't know all the commands to put that together. thanks for your help