# Abstract button question?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/abstract-button-question/11779>\
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**Created:** [January 22, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/abstract-button-question/11779 "2003-01-22T04:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![xmattx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/6de8d8/32.png) [@xmattx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xmattx)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/abstract-button-question/11779/1 "2003-01-22T04:54:47Z")

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ok this is hard to word but ill try:

This is what i want: I have a button and when the mouse is over the hit area i want the button to play at a certain point within a movie clip, hence i have used instance names and frame labels. this is what the actionscript looks like on the button:

on (rollOver) {  
third.gotoAndPlay(“port1”);  
}

third is the instance name i have give the MC.  
port1 is the frame label inside “third” i would like to play from…

both the button and the mc third are in seperate layers in the same keyframe in a movie clip called “main stage” which is placed on the root stage.

does that make sense? thanks.