# Adressing a button to textfield within movieclip symbol

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adressing-a-button-to-textfield-within-movieclip-symbol/214417>\
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**Created:** [January 28, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adressing-a-button-to-textfield-within-movieclip-symbol/214417 "2007-01-28T21:44:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![achwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@achwell](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/achwell)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adressing-a-button-to-textfield-within-movieclip-symbol/214417/1 "2007-01-28T21:44:20Z")

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hi.

i have a page in the site (which is a movie clip, it’s not scane 1)  
in the page i have a movie clip symbol, called “liran” (the instance name) and within it i have a text box, (dynamic text and scrollable) which called “amir”.  
on the page i have a button i want to do the scroll action. but i don’t know how to target the command to this text box. when i tried:  
on (press) {  
liran.amir.scroll++;  
}

it didn’t work…

(when i just deleted the movie clip and the text was on the page itself.  
the command  
on (press) {  
amir.scroll++;  
}  
did worked…

i want to have the text as it is. within the movieclip (liran) if it is possible

please help me

thanks a lot