Clickable buttons within mc

Question

Hello,
I'm working on a project and am having difficulty with a mc inside my swf. The movie clip is stopped at frame 1, showing only a small box with arrows in the top left corner of my swf. When MOUSE_OVER this box the mc plays and stops at frame(25). The mc (moveOut) has a motion tween where a larger box slides onto the stage, embedded are two buttons (toEur & toNeth) that will lead the user back to a different swf. The mc works fine, however if you mouse over either of the buttons it jitters or just goes to frame(1) and stops.
I think what is happening is that mousing over the buttons is considered mousing out of the mc. How can I make it that the mc plays as normal no matter if mouse_over the butons or not, but still make the buttons clickable?  My code is below:
import flash.events.MouseEvent; stop(); moveOut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, playmc); moveOut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, stopmc); function playmc(e:MouseEvent) :void {      play(); } function stopmc(e:MouseEvent) :void {      gotoAndStop(1); }
I also tried to add this code, attempting to make the MOUSE_OVER on buttons just go to frame(25), better then the jitter thing.
toEur.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, endmc); toNeth.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, endmc); function endmc(e:MouseEvent) :void {      gotoAndStop(25); }
I have yet to make the CLICK code for each button, this will involve unloading children swf's, which is another story!!!
Thanks in advance if anyone can help me!

Answer 1

I'm completely new to all of this, I didn't quite understand all of the commentJust keep on going, reflect on your experience and experiment again!
When I just started, I was unable to read AS3 Developers' Guide without howling at the Moon...
A couple of words in addition to what Ned said.
So as to set up a communication between your parent object and a child, which is loaded SWF, you DON'T need to use anything like LocalConnection.
You need to just load your external SWF and then 'talk' to Objects in it through referencing via dot (look at my sample code above (or below - it's closer...)).
I encountered some issues with using Loader class, but replacement with ProLoader fixed all.
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import fl.display.ProLoader;
var CPLoader:ProLoader = new ProLoader();
var ControlPanel:MovieClip;
addChild(CPLoader);
CPLoader.load(new URLRequest("ControlPanel.1920.swf"));
Loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, controlPanel_initialiser);
function controlPanel_initialiser(event:Event):void
ControlPanel = event.target.content;
ControlPanel.Power_BTN.ButtonArea.buttonMode = true;
ControlPanel.Play_BTN.ButtonArea.buttonMode = true;
ControlPanel.Pause_BTN.ButtonArea.buttonMode = true;
ControlPanel.Power_BTN.ButtonArea.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, currentSwitchClick_handler);
ControlPanel.Play_BTN.ButtonArea.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, currentSwitchClick_handler);
ControlPanel.Pause_BTN.ButtonArea.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, currentSwitchClick_handler);