Buttons not working in movie clips

I have multiple movie clips on stage (all in separate layers, of course) as well as buttons on stage to play each movie clip. There are buttons inside each movie clip. The problem is that the buttons inside the top layered movie clip work, but the others in the movie clips below don't.
This is frustrating!! Can anyone help???

It shouldn't matter which layer things are on. If they are separate movielcips, one should not impact another. What version of actionscript are you using? Do any of the movieclips have mouse interactive code assigned to them?

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I'm building a small 'table builder' app for a client. This
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cannot figure out for the life of me.
In the .fla below there's a movie clip 'scroller' it has
buttons in it which load .png's to the main stage. Some of the
buttons work, some don't.... I can't figure out why. Even when I
duplicate a button sometimes it doesn't work.??? If I take a button
that's not working in the movie clip and cut/paste onto the main
timeline it ALWAYS works. I've been pulling my hair out over this
for the last two days . I have even started the whole project from
scratch just to try and find out where I went wrong... but to no
avail..... Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm stuck on a
hump and I need some help to get off of it.
Here's a link to my file. I've stripped away all the styling
elements so it should be pretty clean cut when you see it. Thanks
for any help or guidance!
http://www.buddyscampfire.com/tableBuilder.zip

A few errors: Scene 1 frame 1 Actions layer. You are
referring to buttons inside of the scroller, and you don't have
too. They aren't doing anything. All you need on that frame is:
function startLoading(whichImage) {
loadMovie(whichImage, "imageLoader");
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
infoLoaded = imageLoader.getBytesLoaded();
infoTotal = imageLoader.getBytesTotal();
percentage = Math.floor(infoLoaded/infoTotal*100);
infoField.text = percentage+"%";
if (percentage>=100) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
infoField._visible = false;
Then on the Scroller you have that function again. Remove it
from the scroller, as it does nothing there. Inside of the scroller
all you need is code to attach png files from pressing the buttons.
Make sure each button has a unique instance name, which isn't the
case right now. You have like three buttons called imgbtn1. Fix
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Hi,
I am working on this site: (AS2)
http://www.steamandclean.com/Index_w_1.html
I have two types of drop down menu. One under Commercial and one under Technical
The buttons are movie clips. The drop downs are also movie clips that start in frame 2 and are triggered on rollover.
The child buttons are buttons living on the drop down movie clips. They are set to getURL
As you see they are not willing to neither link to any url or will they run their move clip animation. One is a button and one is a movie clip.
The left movie clip has a mask, but it makes no difference if I remove the mask . It also has a emboss filter and no difference is I take that away either.
All of it is in one flash movie right now, but I will be splitting it up in a master navigation movie and individual swf's soon.
Right now I have the main movie, then the button MC then the dropdown MC and in the drop down MC I have placed either a animated (button) MC or a button. So it nested in nested in.......
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on (release) {
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The drop down buttons seem to be buried. In the left side the whole drop down panel seems to act like a link?
What am I doing wrong?
Can you help?
ggaarde

Hi Ned
Thank you for your reply again.
I figured it out.
Your reply prompted me to have my main button on rollover to go to a frame number on the main time line and then move the content of the drop down movie clip to that frame.
The drop down panel now work and the child buttons animation now work as well. I just had to find a way to make the drop down panel disappear on rollout. Since I could not script the actual drop down panel I created three skinny invisible buttons and placed them on the right, left and button of the drop down panel. I scripted them to go back to frame 1 on both rollover and rollout. Done.
See the result there:
http://www.steamandclean.com/Index_w_1.html
(Left side only)
Thank you for your help.
ggaarde

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I have a movie clip that is called to the stage. The user then clicks a button and music plays. As the music starts, another movie clip is called, a simulation of an equilizer. There are several things that should happen:
1) When the user closes the movie clip the music is supposed to stop playing and the equilizer movie clip is removed. What actually happens is the music stops playing but the equilzer movie clip is not removed.
2) When the music is finished playing the equilzer is supposed to be removed from the stage and the play button is reactivated. But none of that happens. When I click on the movie clip a second time equilizer is still there and the play button is not reactivated.
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import flash.events.Event;
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I figured out the problem. Here's how I reorganized the code (all in one frame).
//Code for Ray Jay song.
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    myPlaySong.PlaySongRJClip.visible = false;
    myPlaySong.ClicktoPlaySong.visible = false;
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myPlaySong.closeSong_bnt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,RemoveSongClip);
function RemoveSongClip(e:Event):void
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    myPlaySong.equilizer_inst.visible = false;
    myPlaySong.PlaySongRJClip.visible = true;
    myPlaySong.ClicktoPlaySong.visible = true;
    playRayJaySongChannel.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, rjSoundComplete);
//Resets all of the movieclips to their orginal state.
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    myPlaySong.ClicktoPlaySong.visible = true;
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I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in a
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The really strange thing is that it was working, but suddenly
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dkmiles wrote:
> I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in
a main scene. The mask
> looks fine while editing/working the movie clip, but
does not show up in the
> scene.
>
> The really strange thing is that it was working, but
suddenly now it won't
> show up in the scene any longer. I've tried replacing
it, making a new layer
> and bringing it in again. But nothing works.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of why this would be?
>
> Any help GREATLY appreciated!
>
> dm
>

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Thanks for the reply Ned. The code I'm using on the buttons is the same method I'm using for the regular buttons (i.e. not with in a movie clip).
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Alex Mari�o wrote:
> adrian,
>
> Could you post the png file online and explain exactly
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> trying to achieve?
>
> alex
>
> adrian stock wrote:
>
>> Frames panel: looping button not working
>>
>>
>> I use Fireworks MX 2004
>>
>> Frames panel: looping button:
>>
>> When I set looping to 2, it stops after 2, as it
should.
>>
>> All other values, i.e. 1, 3, 4 etc will go on
'forever'.
>>
>> What's wrong?
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Adrian

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