Nested Buttons

Hi guys,
i am a fresher in actionscript... i have a problem with my
flash file
i have a problem with a nested button... i have a main button
But_main and which has 2 buttons in it.
the problem i am facing is:
before telling u the problem i will give u a brief about my
flash file....
- my file has a button and the button by default has a mouse
over effect where it scales up but 25%.
- It also has 2 text nested in it which is also are buttons.
my problem:
when i am on the main button it scales up but once it comes
across the text button it scales down automatically.
i knw y it happens.... thats because it goes over another
button so its out off the main button and on the text button.
but can any one tell me the solution how can both my button
work simultaniosly
i hope i am abel to explain my problem properly...
pls help...

Takeing a guess here but i think i know what hes trying to
say....
he has a button say called Dave_BUT in this button he has a
text like a label. now i could be wrong but what i think he is
saying is that when he trys to scale the buttons text from 1 point
to another it goes wrong as it pases over another button..
Answer i belive is really basic flash Treat the button as a
scene in it self create symbol "button" then you got ya 3 states
and your 4th being hit area. Select which state you wish to change
ie if its ya over state then use the 1st frame and then insert key
frame. after inserting youre key frame you should be able to insert
a simbol, say youre text... then open that as a symbol and if i got
this right you shoudl be able to insert frames thus creating an
animation inside the buttons state...once you have done that youl
end up with Dave_BUT that you can drag n drop into youre
scene....mental note here you should also be able to insert action
script for the button also....in case this sounds like gobledy
****** check this tutorial out which i came across explains it
better than i
ps the info im trying to forward to you is at the end of this
tutorial btu to be honest the guy rocks so watch whole movie he
makes it so simple...
http://tutorials.learnflash.com/videos/freebeginCreatingButtons.html
hope it helps

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AS3 air project.. nested button in a movie clip .. trying to use a class script

I have been tring to have a button in a nested movie clip move the timeline along using a class script attached to the nested movie. I can get the buttons to work on the main timeline with another similar class script, but when I have a button within a nested movie and attach similar code to the movie, it doesn't seem to want to work. This is the class code attached to the nested clip.... I guess can an active listener be called if the button isn't yet being visible yet, and should this be done on the Main class script page for the main timeline? Any help would be great!! Thanks
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I have some menu buttons in my main timeline. The buttons are
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LadySamG,
> What I want is that when I press one button, it makes
> another play its own "mc" but I can't get the button
> symbols to talk to each other.
Actually, these objects do "talk to each other"; they just
have to know
each other's names and where the others live. By that, I mean
you'll need
to give each of these objects an instance name in the
Property inspector.
Once they have instance names, you can talk to them with
ActionScript and
manipulate each object in the ways determined by its class.
(What are
classes? Classes define objects by providing for their
properties
[characteristics], methods [things they can do], and events
[things they can
react to]. Button symbols are defined by the Button class,
movie clip
symbols are defined by the MovieClip class.)
> can I make global buttons. If I can how do I do this?
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you mean by
"global" in this context. If you have three movie clips,
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has the same
button symbol inside it -- you can address each button
separately like this:
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// assuming the button's instance
// name is myButton
clipB.myButton
... and so on. Want to adjust the Button._x property (that
is, the
horizontal placement) of clipC's nested button?
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Or is there maybe a movie clip within clipB? If so, what's
that movie
clip's instance name? Assuming myClip, then ...
clipB.myClip.gotoAndPlay(2);
Make sense?
In this approach to "speaking to" objects, you put the code
into a
keyframe, rather than attached to the object itself.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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You pretty much answered this for yourself... "The only way I
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hello all. i am new to this business, i have been
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ok let me try to clear up my situation. 'scene 1' has 4
layers: 'background', 'navigation bar', 'content', and 'actions'.
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