Movie Clip Button Not Working

I'm working on creating buttons right now as movie clips so when you roll over it they rise up. The third one "print" is jumping around like crazy and I can't figure out why. I've deleted and re-done it 3 times without luck. I've attached my file - if anyone can spot where I've made a mistake that would be great. Thanks!

Got it - realized the text wasn't staying as static text and was a movie clip before the final frame. So if anyone else has this problem, create a new keyframe on the ending frame, and make THAT the movie clip.

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Hi,
I'm trying to create a movie clip on my my main timeline that has a movie clip button within it that pops up a box in the middle of the site that contains text and links. On Frame 1 I have the Up state, frame 2 the roll over state, and frame 3 my Down State (where Box appears).
on (rollOut) {
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I have stop(); on each of the 3 keyframes
The problem is that on the main time line, the button is clickable but doesnt do anything
Any suggestions, what am i missing?
Cheers

Ok, i have this assigned to a movieclip, is this wrong? Especially for MovieClip Buttons. Anyway, just tried this and it works!
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Ok,
I'm using a movie clip as a button to show content on a page, effectively its like a new page of the website. Problem is, with the script im using for it, once the content is show, the button is still active and if clicked again, will re-load the content. I want a way to effectively disable the button whist the content is shown.
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this.services_inner.buttonMode = true;
this.services_inner.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rollOver_services);
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Thanks, that does stop it, however, i now need it to work again if a different button is clicked... there are 4 buttons (movie clips) in total, so I assume I'd just need to add the event listener back again on click of the others?
This is the "Services" Button, with the event listener removal.....
this.services_inner.buttonMode = true;
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this.services_inner.play();
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This is the "Contact" Button, which when clicked would need to "re-activate" the Services button.
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this.contact_inner.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rollOver_contact);
this.contact_inner.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_contact);
function rollOver_contact(evt:MouseEvent):void {
this.contact_inner.play();
function onClick_contact(event:MouseEvent):void {
MovieClip(root).mov.backgrounds.art.gotoAndPlay(2);
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I'm having some strange luck in building an image slide
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page and then step through the array elements w/ forward and
back buttons.
I have an empty image clip on the stage where I create an
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[code]
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[/code]
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Can anyone see why the image sizing get's ignored in some
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Found the solution that worked (used ._xscale and ._yscale
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clip_loader_name._height > max_height ) ) // If either dimension
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I have created a movie clip button but am stuck with the actionscript. I have created the rollover and rollout for this movie clip button but i want it to do 2 things after this i want it to go and stop on the first frame of a movieclip which has my content on it called portfoliogallery_mc (which is also the same instance name for it) when you then click the button i want it to go and play frame 11 of that movie clip portfolio gallery_mc.
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kglad
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>
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>
> alex
>
> adrian stock wrote:
>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Adrian

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