# Actionscript declaring a button's actions in frame
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 13, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414 "2003-02-13T00:26:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@shuga](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shuga)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414/1 "2003-02-13T00:26:06Z")
i have my buttons moving all over the screen in animations etc. and those may change in the future, I don’t want to have to reassign actions in every keyframe of the animation for every button. can i just set them in a layer’s actions in a blank frame
like:
MovieClip.prototype.MyClip.on(press){
\_root.animation.gotoAndStop(“blah”);
}
thanks =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414/2 "2003-02-13T00:29:11Z")
Is it a movie clip button or just a regular button?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414/3 "2003-02-13T00:29:42Z")
movieclip that has button actions applied to it 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414/4 "2003-02-13T01:10:13Z")
Not exactly the right syntax. It should look like
```auto
myClip.onPress=function(){
_root.animation.gotoAndStop("blah");
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-declaring-a-buttons-actions-in-frame/13414/5 "2003-02-13T04:20:36Z")
it works!
thank you very much!