Flash :: Movie Clip Interaction

Movie Clip Interaction
I'm pretty sure this is an action script thing so I'm posting the question here. I'm trying to make a little animation for my girl friend, it's of a penguin. What I want is for the penguin to just sort of waddle around the screen (that's the easy part) but what I am asking about is that I want the penguin to be interactive. If you click on the penguin I want it to react to the click in some random way, like have it jump or run away or somthing. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to how to go about this.

Help With Button/movie Clip Interaction
I have 4 buttons on a page and a long rectangle movie clip that slides to a different area each time a button is clicked. The idea is similar to http://www.immigrantindustries.com/i...ords/index.htm when u go from label to news button the image slides over to the left. Basically thats all I'm trying to do. I've looked at most of the posts and no one's asked this question or had it answered so thanks in advance if anyone can help.
-Project-09

Changing Movie Clip Color Stops All Interaction
I have a symbol called myMovieClip that I've animated along a path. I have buttons that call play, stop, prevFrame, etc on the main timeline. This all works fine. However, when I click a button that calls...

on (release) {
trace("set color.");
c = new Color(myMovieClip)
c.setRGB(0x993399);
trace("done.");
}

...the movie clip changes color, but then the buttons don't work anymore. I can't even make it play by hitting the play button in the flash player. Anybody know what's going on? It should be way easier than this to change something's color.

thanks...
-sascha

How To Duplicate Movie Clip Without Any User Interaction On Main Time Line
Hi, Guys

Can any one tell me how to duplicate movie clip (using for loop)in main time line.

yeah! guess right Something to do with game.

Please help me for this.

Bhushan

Movie Interaction
Hi
I am self taught in Flash and I am having difficulties with the following content for my elearning project.

I have created a .fla file called Main Menu and in frame 4 I have a clickbox that the learner has the option to click to view a short movie which has been created seperately with some animation included (filename Person ID Group.fla). Once this movie has completed I want the learner to be navigated back to the parent movie to continue. Also if they do not choose to view the option movie from the parent movie they are to continue on.

These files will eventually be loaded onto a 3rd party software for distribution to clients.

I have read about 'attachMovieClip', 'loadmovie' etc but have not been able to get them to work. I am now totally confused and would appreciate some guidance in this matter.

Many thanks

Debbie

Movie Interaction
ActionScript Code:
loadMovieNum("mymovieurl",10);
_level10.Stop();
Why can't i interact with the loaded movie? Any ideas? I like to keep it that simple for the export in 5.0. Plus I need the loaded movies on descending layer order so I'd like to stick with the loadMovieNum method.

Movie Interaction
ok - I have the main timeline. Frame 1 of that timeline is a movie. When editing the child of that movie all I want to do is place a script in there that say's to go back to the main timeline and play frame 2.

I know it's gotta be easy but it's one of those things I cannot figure out!

Any help would be appreciated.

Interaction Between A Main Movie And Secondary Movie ... HELP
Hello,

My principal movie, call it 'MainMovie', is calling other external movies (swf files - MovieA.swf, MovieB.swf).

What is the way to make them communicate between each other ?

I explain:
The MainMovie contains a menu used to select between MovieA or Movieb to be loaded.
The MovieA also contains a menu. Its buttons are recognized (when the mouse rollover the cursor it changed in a 'hand') but the are not working, If I click on them nothing happend.

or example on of the button of the MovieA contain the following Action:
on (press) {
getURL ("javascript:Start1('Pics/Comic.htm')", "_self");
}
This actionscript is working correctly when I launch 'MovieA' out of the MainMovie.

I am sure that is something to do with the path, but what I have to do ? I have tried several but without success.

Thanks,

Attoc.

Interaction Between Swf Using 'load Movie' ?
Hi,

I have a movie and using load movie I load another movie on level 1. Now when I unload the movie I want to go directly to a scene in the movie on level 0. Can this be done???

Thanx

Interaction With Draggable Movie
I'm trying to make a movie clip change its size as you drag it across the screen. Heres what I have on frame 1 of my movie:

box_x = getProperty ("dragit", _x );
box_y = getProperty ("dragit", _y );
if (box_x >= 200) {
setProperty ("dragit", _xscale, 30);
setProperty ("dragit", _yscale, 30);
} else {
setProperty ("dragit", _xscale, "50");
}

the box that I want to change size starts off at %50 x scale which is ok. but when I move it past the 200 mark, it doesn't change to %30 like I want it to. The box_x and box_y variables are not updating as I drag my movie clip. They are only getting the x and y co-ordinates when the movie loads up. How do I get the variables to update as the movie is being dragged so that it changes the size of the box once you drag it past the 200 point?

Frame And Movie Interaction
Hi

I'm working on a site with two menus, one on the top and the other on the left. So, I made 3 frame to the html document. In every section, there a new interface.

Actually, i've made a flash movie and a html page for each interface, but when the page load, we see the 3 frame load one after the other.

So i put all the interface in 2 movie, one for the top, and one for the left.

When a menu is clicked, I would like to change the movie frame on the other HTML frame.

I've tried several way, but wasnt able to make it work..

Anyone can help?

Interaction + External Movie
Hi guys,

It's my first post in here, I spent most of the day looking for my answer but i still couldn't find it.
So my problem is,

page1 = index
page2 = aboutme
page3 = portfolio

On my Index, lets call page1, I have a menu, the same menu that i have on my page3, this menu contain around 10 links, so the basic idea is to open differents externals movieclips in each link, it works fine when I use this links on page3, i just used the action to each link;

- on (release) {
this._parent.gallery_mc.loadMovie("animal_gallery.swf");
}

ok, the thing is, when i use the menu on page1, it has to open page3 and then, inside page3, load my external movie in my gallery_mc; so lets see the action;

on (release) {
if (_root.link<>page && _root.G<>1 && _root.SP ==0) {
_root.scroller.gotoAndStop("s0");
_parent["item"+_root.link].gotoAndPlay("s2");
_root.link = page;
_root.ch_cont.gotoAndPlay("s1");

}
if (_root.link<>page && _root.SP ==1){
_root.scroller.gotoAndStop("s0");
_root.link = page;
_root.play();

}

}

This works fine, its just to call my page3. So now is missing to load my external MC into a MC called gallery_mc into my page3, so I tried all the ways and still didn't work;

Just for u to understand the structure;

root + ch_cont + all_pages + page3

Its a bit difficult to explaim, but hope u will understand it!!!

thanks for your time!!!
Daniel

Preloaded Movie No Interaction
I have a preloaded movie that loads in to the movie fine. However when I try and interact with the buttons etc they dont work??

does any one know what could be the problem here?

Interaction Between 2 Seperate Movie On 1 Page?
Is there any way possible to have one movie interact with another movie on the same HTML page?

Interaction Between A Movie And The Main-timeline
Hi! This is for Flash MX 2004: Can anyone figure out the actionscripting that could apply to the following example?:

I've got two frames in the main-timeline.
The first one is labelled "ONE", the second one "TWO".
The first frame contains a movieclip (instance name: "MC"); the second one contains a simple Bitmap. I've got one button inside "MC" (instance name: "BTN").

THE ULTIMATE QUESTION:
How can I tell "BTN" to go to frame two in the main-timeline "on release"?

NO Loaded Movie - Parent Interaction
Sorry... duplicate post... please read the post here:

http://flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=670293

Help Movie Interaction Question Variables?
Hi all,
Ok. I have a huge question, and it can be very difficult for me to explain, so I'll do my best.

I have a movie (which is a website), in where I have labels in my timeline, and I basically have all my buttons with the script...on(release) gotoAndPlay("framelabel"). This is the only way I've learned to make a flash website. Now.
??My problem is that I would like for my pages to fade out (or do some kind of animation) BEFORE the next part of the movie that the user just clicked on comes in. I know everyone has seen this before.. and I've given an example.

Is this variables? Because I wouldn't be able to use gotoandplay because of I would have to make a label and timeline for every separate instance. (If that makes sense?)

So can anyone help me out? Example of what I'm talking about is below. THANKS!
www.foxracing.com

Interaction Between Main And Loaded Movie
Hey guys. You have all surely been doing this a long time now, so you probably encountered this question many times. I have to make this project in flash for my university. It's like a full flash site with four links. I want to use a loadMovie action to load the 4 different pages on top of the main menu. The first question is:
Is it possible to have a BACK button on the loaded movie which tells my main movie to go at a certain frame when the pressed and right after that just unload itself if necessary? If so, then with what function or action ... it would be just great if i can do that, i would've solved all my problems. Then comes the second issue... if i have a volume slider in my main movie and i don't use loadMovie() but just jump to another scene or frame, would all the values of the volume in the main scene change themselves as i jump to another scene? I'm just afraid that if i load the whole navigation once more the volume slider would change it's position to default.
I'll be very greatful if you could share some of your experience with me. Thanks and i hope hearing from you.

Pausing Movie & User Interaction Issues
Hello All –

I have been going around and around in circles trying to find a script for what I thought would be an easy thing to do. Here’s where I’m at – I have a Flash movie that has five images. What I need it to do is automatically play through the movie and display each image for about 10 seconds then move onto the next image.

What is also needed is for the user to click on one of the five buttons so if Image 4 is showing the user can click on Button 2 to bring up Image 2 and then after pausing for the specified time the movie will resume playing and pausing.

Client Specifications: The images and text/link must be set up so that those elements can be updated externally. Right now this movie has the images being loaded with the Loader Component so that the five jpgs are loaded dynamically and the text/link is being loaded with the TextArea Component through the five txt files in the folder.

Each image is set up in its own Movie Clip and each clip contains a mask for the rounded corners and a fade-in for the beginning along with the image and text being loaded. So there are five movie clips.

My Problem: When you first load the movie it plays fine. However, when you click on a button – say the movie is displaying Image 4, click on Button 2 and it jumps back to display Image 2 and then the timing goes crazy. The movie starts playing faster and will even get to the point where it skips from Image 1 to Image 3.

Here is the movie: http://www.fractalrust.com/flash/

The Code: This code is on the first frame of the main timeline:
function wait() {
stop();
var myInterval = setInterval(function() {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}, 10*1000);
}

This code is on the same frame as each movie clip on the main timeline:
wait();

I have gone through a lot of different scripts that I found and this is the only one that comes close to doing what I want. Not sure if the script I found is compatible with Flash 8, which is what I am using. If anyone could let me know if what I am looking to do is doable that would be great. Also if you want to take a look at the movie you can download it: http://fractalrust.com/flash/fiveheaders.zip

One last note – the person who asked me to do this got the idea from this site: http://aimtoday.aim.com/
It’s the Flash movie off in the upper right corner that has four rotating images and you can click on the buttons to jump to anyone of them.

Thanks in advance!
Kecia

Making A Movie Clip In A Movie Clip Go To The Next Frame Of The Original Movie Clip
I have a movie clip (for simplicity I'll call it movie_a) in movie_a I have another movie clip movie_b.

in movie_a i have a button that when pressed makes movie_b play (it has a stop frame every once in a while so the button acts as a "next" button)

I want it so that when i get to the last frame of movie_b and press the button, it will go to the next frame of movie_a

I hope that doesn't confuse u and u can help me solve this problem, as i am stumped and I've tried everything I could think of (which isn't that much as I'm not too good with actionscript)

thnx

Movie Position Related With Size Of Browser Window - Flash Interaction 02
ok,
there are a couple of things of flash, that i was unnable to solve from a long time up to now.
and everitime i look on related post of these topics, there are always with 0 answers.

so, i will place here a couple of posts, one with each problem i want to resolve,
i really prefer to use as much flash as i can before i like it much more than any other software, but i believe we will all agreed that it has some weak points.

so basically this post is related on how we can interact flash to other web design software

Here is problem 2:

our flash movies, at least mines,
that i design everithing in flash,
ther are located in a special place of the browser window

here, the flash movie its centered in the browser window,
and when i resize the BW,
it stays centered unless the BW its smaller than the movie

i will like to know how is this done,
i mean,
its flash with another software working together ?
its everithig designed with something else and the flash movies are just accesories ??
or is full designed in flash in a way i still dont get it ???

becouse i've alrready tried a lot of things without any luck

could any of you give me a hand with this ??

pd: i will also post another topic related to this, and this example but, not about the BW it will be about the text and the search engines. so we can discuss these topics separately

thanks in advance

oc

Targeting A Frame Label In A Movie Clip From A Button In A Separate Movie Clip.
I have two separate movie clips placed on a timeline-MovieclipA and MovieclipB. I have a button in MovieclipB clip that wants to target a frame label located in the MovieclipA timeline. Can someone help me?

Movie Clip Buttons Nested Inside Movie Clip Dont Work
Hi people!
im having a problem here.

in my first frame i have a movie clip named "menu_mc".
i have this AS for this movie:

Code:
this.menu_mc.onRollOver = function() {
menu_mc.gotoAndPlay(8);
}
this.menu_mc.onRollOut = function() {
menu_mc.gotoAndStop(7);
}

thats working ok, the menu_mc plays on rollover from frame 8 till frame 12 where stops.
On frame 12 (this is inside the menu_mc movie clip) i have another movie clip, named button1_mc.
and also i have AS controling that MC:

Code:
this.button1_mc.onRelease = function() {
getURL("index.htm", "_self");
}

The problem is that when i rollOver on menu_mc it work fine and the button1 appears, the problem is when i try to click button1...
doesnt work.

the swf you can see it on www.wt.com.mx/menu.swf
can anybody help me please?
what im doing wrong?
or what other ideas can you give me so i can make that work.

thanks!

Mouse Rollover On One Movie Clip Increase Decrease Alpha Of Another Movie Clip..
So I really haven't messed with Actionscript much for a couple years and here is my issue.

I have several movieclips I put together that will eventually be a menu for my website. When you roll over a menu option (movieclip) I am trying to get another movie clip to fade in giving the description of the menu item.

For example - when you roll your mouse over the 'Live Chat' option a brief text description would appear telling you what the live chat is about. This description is a seperate movie clip appearing away from the original menu.

I have made the movieclips for the menu and the movie clips for the descriptions. I tried this action on the menu option to get the description to fade in:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this.onRollOver = function() {
if (this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha<100) {
this._parent.mc_text_discussionBoard._alpha += 5;
}
};
}
But the alpha only increases on the description (mc_text_discussionBoard) by 5 when I keep rolling my move over and out and over again. It makes sense why it does that, but I'm not exaclty sure how to get it to continually increase the alpha by 5.

any help would be great and I am anxiously waiting to get this solved!
Kevin

Code 4 MovieClip Button To Load A Movie Clip Into A Placeholder Movie Clip.
Yeah that title sounds a little confusing...so i will explain:

Is there a way to tell a "movie clip button" that once it is clicked on to load a "movie clip" into a "movie clip placeholder". So instead of loading an external swf into the placeholder, it will be a movie clip from within the same library. Putting every single custom clip on the timeline would take a while, so that is why I thought it would be easier like this, and the other movie clips are not that large that I want to load into it so there is no need for external swfs, trying to keep it clean. Here is the code along the lines I am trying to go for.

__________________________________________

this.profile_mc.onRelease = function() {
placeholder_mc.loadMovie("profileSection_mc","plac eholder_mc","_root.content");
}
__________________________________________

- "profile_mc is the button I am trying to activate to load the
"profileSection_mc" into the "placeholder_mc". but so far no good.

- the movie clips are within the same library, not on the timeline or external library.

- Is this possible?

Using A Button In A Movie Clip To Control The Movie(and Not Movie Clip) Timeline
Ok i have a button placed in a movie clip. I want this button, when released, to go in another scene, frame one, on the movie(scene) timeline and not on the movie clip timeline.

So i tried: gotoAndPlay("mission", 1); (mission is the name of my scene)

But it goes to the frame 1 of my movie clip, It would be great if someone could tell me how i can control the movie timeline while my button is in a movie clip

thaks
Vakarm

A Movie Clip Inside A 2nd Movie Clip Colliding With 4th Movie Clip That's In The 3rd
sorry if that sounds a bit odd, this is really a simple problem that i can't seem to nail.

Can u please give the the hittest that shows when a movie clip collides with another regardless of their level.

How To 'stop' A Movie Clip Within A Movie Clip Within A Movie Clip Loop
I've done searches, laughed, cried, and punched holes through the wall, but I can't figure this out.

I'm in Flash MX (pro) and I have a MovieClip on my main timeline (frame 1). Inside that clip is another animation (the static animation scrolling across the screen), and another inside of it of the static animation (6 characters on a train each animated uniquely).

Confused yet? Ha! OK, so I just want the damned animation on the main timeline to run once and then stop (or to 270 frames). I've tried:

myMovieClip.stop()

to no avail. I've tried attaching the script to the movie clip itself, and also to the frame.

Any suggestions?

Making A Draggable Movie Clip Control The Location Of Another Movie Clip
http://www.kineticz.net/jba/residental.jpg that is a picture of what i am trying to do. the white bar at the bottom is the draggable movie clip and the group of 3 pictures right above that is the movie clip that i am trying to control w/ the draggable clip. I am having trouble writing a script that will do this. any help you can give will be much appreciated.

When I Click On A Movie Clip I Need The Movie Clip To Goto And Play Frame 2
i have created a movieclip and draged it on to the stage i tryed used on mouse down then tell target goto and play but that ment when ever the mouse clicked any where, how do i tell in to only play when i click on the movieclip ?

How Can I Control A Movie Clip Which Was Loaded In To A Empty Movie Clip On Level 0
how can i control a movie clip which was loaded in to a empty movie clip on level 0 the name of the movie is 'imagemc.swf' and 'imagemc' for the empty movie clip on level 0. the movie doesn't have a movieclip name, how am i going to tell target the movie?

How To Manipulate A Movie Clip On The Main Stage From Inside Another Movie Clip
I have a button inside a movie clip, and I want it to work that when you hit the button, a different movie clip will go to frame 5. anyone know how to help? I think it has something to do with which level it is on, but I can't manage to figure out anything else.

A Button Inside A Movie Clip, Within A Movie Clip, Calling Another Scene:
Is it even possible?

I have been trying to do it for the last few days for a site I am working on.

I have done searches in many forums and it's foolish looking for an answer that way, because quite frankly every thread I opened was something to do with LoadMovie or GetURL, etc.

What I have right now is on the button in my Menu Bar Movie Clip:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(285);
}

Which plays a fancy little animation in the movie clip and then on the last frame of that movie clip I had:

gotoAndPlay("Contact", 1);

Which is the Scene for the "Contact Us" Scene named "Contact"

One would think that it would load up the scene and play at frame 1, however all that happens is it reloads the movie clip of the "Menu Bar" at frame 1 and starts over, not even realizing what I asked.

Anyways, I figured there's a script or something that tells it to look outside of the movie clip or to the _Root, or whatever.

If someone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry I have no example to show, since I have yet to upload it. (It's my company's web site, and I don't think customers would want to see some half-arsed web site that's not complete.

Thanks in advance.

On Mouseover Show Movie Clip, On Mouseout Close Movie Clip *HELP*
Basically what I am trying to do is this...

I have a movie clip that is a name. When you put your mouseover the name I want another movie clip to display to the right of the name. This clip has a photo and bio of the person.

The photo and bio have an animation that fades it in and an animation to fade it out. I have 5 frames for the fade in, then stop frame, then 5 frames for the fade out.

What actionscript do I need to use to make that second movie clip load when a user mousesover the name (first movie clip) and to make the second half of the second movie clip play when the user removes their mouse from name (first movie clip).

NOTE: I tried using loadMovie and unLoad movie but I couldn't do it loading another swf. The reason being this is already an swf loaded inside a main movie. I guess you can't load an swf inside an swf that's already loaded inside an swf. I hope this all makes sense!

I appreicate all the help!

Thanks a lot!

Create A Movie Clip As A Button To Jump To Half Way Through Another Movie Clip?
hi guys and gals,
i am wondering if i can make a movie clip (as a link for a website) jump to half way through another movieclip...
thanks in advance

Create An Empty Movie Clip Inside An Existing Movie Clip?
I'm making sort of a tabbed navigation scheme by reading the data for each tab in from an XML file. What I'm wondering is if it's possible to use createEmptyMovieClip() to make a new empty movie clip inside a movie clip that already exists on the stage.

Using
ActionScript Code:
m_anchor.loadMovie(bg_image);
works as I would expect. bg_image is just the relative path to an image file, and m_anchor is a movieclip already on the stage. However, doing a similar thing:
ActionScript Code:
m_anchor.createEmptyMovieClip("textbox", this.getNextHighestDepth());
and then drawing a shape (a rounded rectangle, which I then want to put text on top of) doesn't work. It works if I just say "this.createEmptyMovieClip" instead of attempting to create it inside the m_anchor clip, but if I do that, the "textbox" is created at the root level and I can't unload it along with everything else in the "m_anchor" clip. Is it possible to create a new empty movie clip inside of one that is already on the stage?

Thanks!

Load An Internal Movie Clip To An Empty Movie Clip On The Stage
Can any of you shed some light as to why this is not working:

on (release) {
emptyMC.attachMovie("mrimc","instance1",this.getNe xtHighestDepth());
}

what I want to have happen is when the user clicks a button it loads the mirmc into emptyMC on the stage.

I have double checked that my empty movie clip does indeed have an instance name of emptyMC and that the movie I want to load into does in fact have the name mrimc in the library. Any ideas?

Problem Getting Movie Clip Inside Of Movie Clip To Face Mouse
I used the code below to make a movie clip face the mouse, it works when I use it on a movie clip that's not embedded in another movie clip, but when I used it on an embedded movie clip, it's axis seems to change.

Attach Code

var stickGun:MovieClip = this.stick_holder.stickGun_mc;
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc

stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onMove);
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove);

function onMove(event:Event):void {
// get the radian value of the angle between the clip and the mouse...
var myRadians:Number = Math.atan2(mouseY - stickGun.y, mouseX - stickGun.x);
// convert it to degrees...
var myDegrees:Number = Math.round((myRadians * 180 / Math.PI));
// get the horizontal and vertical distance between the clip and the mouse...
// rotate the clip toward the mouse...
stickGun.rotation = myDegrees;
}

Placing Actionscript Movie Clip Inside A Movie Clip Symbol
I'm loading an external image into an empty actionscript movie clip (holder1) using MovieClipLoader(); on frame one of my movie and is invisible. Then when the movie plays, there is an empty movie clip symbol (image1_mc) that is placed manually on the stage within another movie clip symbol (flash_mc), and is also on a bottom layer of a mask layer which is animated. Is it possible to place "holder1" inside of "image1_mc" so that I can treat it as if it were an embedded image? In other words, have the image in "holder1" inside of the manually placed movie clip symbol "image1_mc" so that I can use it like a regular symbol on the stage?

How Can I A Movie Clip Splash Prior To Attaching The Choose Movie Clip..Help
I have a presentation which I would like to publish on CD. What I want is to have movies attached to the container_mc on the stage upon clicking the desired navigation buttone. But before movie gets attached, I would like to have a logo_mc animation (from the library) to play itself before playing the selected clip.

I think I need to write up a function which will call the animation splash clip prior to attaching the clicked movie.

Appreaciate all the help.

Thanks so much.

Control Movie Clip In Container From Button Inside Other Movie Clip
There are three movie clips involved in this question.

1. A main movie clip that has a target empty movie clip where an external swf loads.

2. A menu movie clip that is built from button symbols and has its own timeline.

3. The external movie.

When a user clicks on the menu, the external swf loads into the empty movie clip target.  This part works fine. Here's the code:
on (release) {
    loadMovie ("Lesson1.swf", "_root.container");
}

I want to use one external swf for all lesson, versus 20 external swfs. The problem I'm having is controling at what frame the external swf loads.  I've tried adding --gotoAndStop (15) -- for example. I've also tried adding, gotoAndStop "_root.container" (15), but that doesn't work either. The gotoAndStop action ends up controlling the menu movie clip timeline instead of the movie loaded into the container. I figure this is because the menu mc has "embedded" buttons and it's own timeline.

Any  help you can offer will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Sheila

Creating A Button To Open A Movie Clip From Inside A Movie Clip?
I'm using a hexagon menu to display some images. One image is placed on each slide of the hexagon menu (which can then be rotated left and right to see other "slides").

What I want to do now is to be able to click on the object (image) as a button and for it to go to another scene which shows the image blown up and some description next to it (which is another movie)

I have tried the following which doesn't seem to work:
Created an invisible button (or choosing the image as a button) and having

on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene 5", 1);
}

this doesn't work when I use it over the hexagonal menu, but when I move the button to somewhere else on the screen (not over the movie) it works.

Please can someone help with this - Ive been working on it flat out over the weekend and desperately want to make it work. any ideas would be appreciated!! thank you

Loading External Movie Clip With A Button Inside Another Movie Clip Help
Hi,

I am working on a scrolling thumbnail movie clip, that when you click on the thumbnail button inside the movie clip it will load an external movie clip. I have an empty movie clip on the main stage, and have been trying all sorts of code, but for some reason it doesn't like that I am inside a movie clip using buttons. It can't seem to find the external swf.

I have tried:

on (release) {
loadMovie (ithink.swf, "loader");

and

on (release) }
if (firstTime == true) {
loadMovie("ithink.swf", _root.loader);
firstTime = false;
} else {
_root.clicked = "ithink.swf";
_root.loader.gotoAndPlay("goback");
}
}

and so far nothing, for some reaosn when I click on a button outside of the movie clip with the above code it loads... and than the other works too, but if I click on the buttons inside the scolling movie clip first they won't work.

Any suggests or ideas!!?

I would really appreciate it... I am beyond frusterated!!

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