# Activating a movieclip onmouseover

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/activating-a-movieclip-onmouseover/72048>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 1, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/activating-a-movieclip-onmouseover/72048 "2004-12-01T20:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![imvain2](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/imvain2/32/620_2.png) [@imvain2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imvain2)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/activating-a-movieclip-onmouseover/72048/1 "2004-12-01T20:49:33Z")

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What I want to do is:

I would like to have a button (I know how to do this), and when the user mousesover the button, I want a movieclip to be activated.

So:

When user mouses over my home button, my home\_ani clip will be accessed. I would want to goto the frame 2 and play of that movie clip.