# Animated button which directs to the file itself?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-button-which-directs-to-the-file-itself/198089
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 22, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-button-which-directs-to-the-file-itself/198089 "2006-08-22T12:53:39Z")
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### Author: ![goeiste](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/goeiste/32/2741_2.png) [@goeiste](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/goeiste)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-button-which-directs-to-the-file-itself/198089/1 "2006-08-22T12:53:39Z")

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Hello I have a problem that has been buggin me since a couple of days and I cant seem to get it right. I made a Movie Clip with a RollOver and RollOut animation. Through this movie clip I want to display a picture that is on another frame (a gotoAndStop function). I was planning to do that with a button, but when I place it over the movie clip the clip doesnt work any more. When I try to assign it to the clip itself, it performs the framejump inside the movieclip in stead of the “main stage”.

My question therefore is: How can I keep the animation, but with a framejump?

in this file some is explained, but this file loads an external page, while I want to stay inside my flash document: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button\_effect.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button_effect.htm)

thanks in advance.