# Affecting 100 buttons all at once
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 12, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295 "2004-03-12T20:13:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@MArll](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MArll)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/1 "2004-03-12T20:13:56Z")
That’s what i need to do!
Switch on or off or trigger a gotoAndStop in 100 instances of the same button symbol by pressing a ‘reset’ button…
Is this even possible.?
At the moment I can only affect 1 button!!
thanks for help… sorry if it seems like a dumb question, but it’s friday and my head is going bongo-floyd!
thanks
marll
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/2 "2004-03-12T20:19:14Z")
If the instances are all named like button1, button2, button3,…, button100, and your reset button is located in the same timeline as your buttons, you can use something like this:
```auto
resetbutton.onPress = function(){
for(var i=1; i<=100;++i){
this._parent["button"+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/3 "2004-03-13T01:51:51Z")
i was rather hoping to find a solution where I wouldn’t have to rename all the buttons [they currently all have the same name]
…but, if that works, then so be it!
thanks again Claudio. you are a real help as ever,
marll
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/4 "2004-03-13T01:53:31Z")
Anytime marll 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/5 "2004-03-13T02:02:31Z")
i still don’t understand how you can be a ‘novice’!!!
:]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/6 "2004-03-13T03:01:29Z")
i find a very odd problem now!.. i need more than 100 buttons, in fact twice , maybe 3 x as may… i have named each button reveal1, reveal2 etc…
but now I have gotten past 100, flash does not see my buttons with any number higher… Any ideas how to get around this??
thanks
your puzzled friend
marll
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/7 "2004-03-13T03:05:35Z")
```auto
resetbutton.onPress = function(){
for(var i=1; i<= **300** ;++i){
this._parent["reveal"+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/8 "2004-03-13T03:05:43Z")
i am really sorry… i worked it out … call the cops off
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/9 "2004-03-13T20:00:54Z")
WHOA hold on there claudio!
what the heck isthis?!
[AS]
this.\_parent[“reveal”+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
[/AS]
iam confused on why u path ur mcs like that
why add a this…and a \_parent.??O\_O I am stupid
and
btw, so by using [“reveal”+i] you can write multiple mc names like that?
so basically flash would see that as
\_parent.reveal1.gotoAndStop(frame);
\_parent.reveal2.gotoAndStop(frame);
\_parent.reveal3.gotoAndStop(frame);
\_parent.reveal4.gotoAndStop(frame);
am i right?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/10 "2004-03-13T20:44:57Z")
don’t worry aout the pathe name to much… i am not actually using that path, i use one to the mc which in this case is reveal\_mc
btw, so by using [“reveal”+i] you can write multiple mc names like that?
so basically flash would see that as
\_parent.reveal1.gotoAndStop(frame);
\_parent.reveal2.gotoAndStop(frame);
\_parent.reveal3.gotoAndStop(frame);
\_parent.reveal4.gotoAndStop(frame);
am i right? \*\*[/QUOTE]
Exactamundo! that is right…
mart
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/affecting-100-buttons-all-at-once/45295/11 "2004-03-13T22:19:00Z")
> \*Originally posted by Blenderben \*
> \*\*WHOA hold on there claudio!
what the heck isthis?!
[AS]
this.\_parent[“reveal”+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
[/AS]\*\*
That code is inside the onPress handler for the resetbutton. The scope right now is the resetbutton. If i want to reference something that is in the same timeline as the resetbutton, i need to go up one level in the movie hierarchy. Thats why i used this.\_parent. Im pointing to one level up from the current object.
Was that confusing? :pa: