New Simple Button Code

I have a movie clip labeled "about" - inside the movie clip I
have a button named "home"
Inside the about movie clip I have a secondary movie clip
with a button inside with the following code:
on (press) {
gotoAndPlay("p1");
about.home.enabled=false;
However I can not get the code to work - when I open the
secondary movie clip it does not jump back down and diable the
"home" button in the about movie clip!
Can anyone help?

your reference to 'home' button is wrong. if so:
about -> home [btn]
about -> 'secondary' [btn]
then the code on 'secondary' has to reference like this:
on(press){
this._parent.home.enabled = false;
ok now?
adam

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the "contacts" movie clip is located in frame 3
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execute the code on the frames where your movieclips are
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Hi
I am new to flash and having a bit of trouble. All I would
like to do is be able to create a button and have that button
navigate to a frame.
What I am doing now is:
Insert - New Symbol - Button and name the button (ex: about)
Go through the up/over/down/hit steps and return to scene 1
I then drag the about button onto the stage
I give the about button the instance name of about_btn
In the action layer, I enter the following code:
stop();
_root.about_btn.onRelease = function(){
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quote:
Originally posted by:
db11
When I test the button, I get error 1120: "Access of
undefined property onrelease".
AS3 is case sensitive. You must have mistyped onrelease
instead of onRelease

Simple Button Help

Hi
I am new to flash and having a bit of trouble. All I would
like to do is be able to create a button and have that button
navigate to a frame.
What I am doing now is:
Insert - New Symbol - Button and name the button (ex: about)
Go through the up/over/down/hit steps and return to scene 1
I then drag the about button onto the stage
I give the about button the instance name of about_btn
In the action layer, I enter the following code:
stop();
_root.about_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop("about");
"about" being the keyframe I would like to go to
When I test the button, I get error 1120: "Access of
undefined property onrelease".
I am working on adobe flash cs3 on a pc. I know this is a
very simple issue and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

what have you done so far? what don't you know how to do?
where are you stuck at? need way more detail to help any
further.

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ok, i'm working on a project involving buttons, and i finished it and it compiles fine, but when i run the applet (using textpad), nothign shows up.
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selectable property to false. The other two buttons appear to be
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