Accessing buttons inside frame a movieClip

Question

I understand that putting all code on the main timeline of
the main movie is the best way to do things; A button in my main
movie allows users to view a movieClip – this MC contains 2
frames: in frame 1 a ‘continue’ button takes users to
frame 2 of same movieClip – frame 2 has a close button
– this is the one that doesn’t work. It seems that
anything after the initial frame isn’t recognised when the
code is on main (root) timeline. This can’t be right?
For clarification, this is my code:
myMovieClip._visible = false;
/////////////////FUNCTIONS//////////////////
function fViewInfo() {
myMovieClip._visible = true;
function clearAll() {
_root.myMovieClip.gotoAndStop("frame1");
_root.myMovieClip._visible = false;
/////////////////BUTTON ACTIONS//////////////
viewInfo.onRelease = fViewInfo;
myMovieClip.continue_btn.onRelease = function() {
myMovieClip.gotoAndStop("frame2");
myMovieClip.close_btn.onRelease = clearAll;

Answer 1

couple of things i'd check:
1) in myMovieClip, is there only ONE item per layer? two
items = bad juju, no workey.
2) make sure you have a hit area defined for the button.
seems dumb, but let's be sure... never know...
3) realize that once you move off of frame 1, there is no
code working. so park some code on frame 2 that will handle what
you want to happen. although, i'd handle it a bit differently by
altering the button itself to have 2 frames (minimum) that act like
a toggle from 'continue' to 'close'. much better that way and you
can still handle all your code in frame 1.
the code i'd put on the button (a movie clip) would look like
this (2 frames total):
on frame 1 (the one that says 'continue'):
stop();
this.onRelease = function()
doSomeStuff(); // this actually does some stuff, like play
or some other function
gotoAndStop(2); // go to the frame that has 'close' on it
on frame 2 (the one that says 'close):
stop();
this.onRelease = function()
doSomeOtherStuff(); // this actually does some stuff, like
play or some other function
//gotoAndStop(1); // optional return to frame 1 if you want
to make a toggle behaviour...
i hope this helps. if not... um... try to explain in other
words and i'll try again.
NB :)