Buttons and movie clips

I'm sorry if this question has already been answered. I
searched the archives and couldn't find what I was looking for.
Basically what I want to do is use a button to play a movie when
pressed. The problem is I can't figure out how to do it.
1. I've created 3 buttoms and three movie clips.
2. I created a layer for the background which has text on it
that says "press to view".
3. I created another layer for the buttons and one layer for
the button text
4. I created an actions layer and put a stop action in frame
1
5. I added another layer for the movie clips on frame 2
(mailflow_mc), frame 3 (reject_mc), frame 4 (fullrate_mc) and
labeled each frame accordingly.
6. Add action script for each button:
on (press) {
gotoAndPlay("reject");
When I play the movie the animations will not load and they
flash fast. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mimi

if you have a frame labelled reject you can use:

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What version of Flash are you using? Telltarget is very
old... try something like this:
// array of the animations
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you have that, too, so it loops.
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buttons in movie clips
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relatively sure that you
> can have buttons in Movie Clips. I've also noticed that
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> it it?
of course it should work...
Try to upload the source, let us check it out for you, spare
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Best Regards
Urami
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</urami>

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use frame labels only and use the goto methods (like your
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http://www.fjcruiser.ca/
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Bit new to this and have been searching the adobe forums and google. I am trying to create a button that will play an imported MovieClip.
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I am practicing AS3 (after years of AS2) and am having trouble having a button inside a movie clip talk to another movie clip on the main timeline. Here is the code:
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intranet. I added buttons for nextFrame and prevFrame to allow the
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your button: stop() ; So, when the animation is finished, the MC
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