Pass button instance name to a function when button is in ScrollPane?

I have a ScrollPane component which holds a movieclip from my
library. I am trying to set up a funtion to read the
movieclip.button instance name when I click a button. On a trace,
all I receive is "spContentHolder."
How can I capture the button instance name when the button
resides inside the scroll pane?
Thanks.

path.scrollpaneinstance.spContentHolder will reference a
movieclip added to your scrollpane IF you used your scrollpane's
contentPath to add a movieclip to the scrollpane. from there,
reference any child buttons/movieclips like you normally
would.

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Hi!
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mcMainAnimation.moveFadeTransform(0, mcMainAnimation._y,
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> Hi
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> I have a movieclip prototype thats scales and moves any
movieclips
> depending on the parameters passed in. I want to be able
to pass in a
> function name that is executed when the main function
has finished. The
> problem is the line of code that calls the main function
executes the
> function name that I m trying to pass in as a parameter.
Is there
> something I m missing?
>
> see my code below:
>
> "mcMainAnimation.moveFadeTransform(0,
mcMainAnimation._y, -100,
> mcMainAnimation._xscale, -30, 50,moveToX());"
>
> MovieClip.prototype.moveFadeTransform = function(t,
oldY, diffY, oldScale,
> newScale, tTime, funcToCall) {
> this.onEnterFrame = function() {
> t++;
> if (t<=tTime) {
> this._y = easeIn(t, oldY, diffY, tTime);
> this._xscale = easeIn(t, oldScale, newScale, tTime);
> this._yscale = easeIn(t, oldScale, newScale, tTime);
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> funcToCall;
> this.onEnterFrame = null;
> }
> };
> };
>
> moveToX = function () {
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> }
>
>
> Thank in advance
>
> Shaun
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