# Animated smartclips tutorial?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-smartclips-tutorial/69137
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**Created:** [November 1, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-smartclips-tutorial/69137 "2004-11-01T21:06:34Z")
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### Author: ![malidia](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/malidia/32/684_2.png) [@malidia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/malidia)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-smartclips-tutorial/69137/1 "2004-11-01T21:06:34Z")

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I just finised the animated smartclips navigation tutorial found on [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/ani\_smartclipnav.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/ani_smartclipnav.htm)

and the part i am concerned about is this:

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"Now you’re obviously going to want these \*\*buttons \*\*to lead somewhere … My best advice, and the practice I always use, is to add a new layer above your movie, and insert a new instance of your invisible button per link, and add the Actionscript for each one 🙂

## This gives the user the impression they are clicking on your movie clips, but they are actually clicking on invisible buttons. Devious eh!"

when ever i put a button ontop of my mc that contains a button to make it work all i can access via the swf is the button on top of the mc, thus the mc never gets hit, thus the animation never plays, is there anyway to make a button so that you can mouse over the button and the mc at the same time???