# Another button question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-button-question/160976>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 31, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-button-question/160976 "2005-08-31T02:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![spoonman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@spoonman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spoonman)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-button-question/160976/1 "2005-08-31T02:23:20Z")

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I have a question regarding buttons. I am a noob and this question has most likley been answered before, yet I cannot find the answer. I want to create pop-up windows in my flash document. On the timeline I have buttons that I want to use to play the pop-ups when you click on them. The pop ups are self contained movie clips that have a bit of animation and pics on them. I dragged each mc onto the stage. The problem I am having is the movies start to play when the flash document is loaded. I want my main graphic (artwork) to stay in place on the stage and when you click a button the approate pop-up(movie-clip) will play, It’s seems when I do it they play regardless. How can I activate movie clips from buttons on the stage.

I have been using the action:

on(rollOver) {  
\_root.popup\_1.play();  
}  
With this method do I still have to drag the MC onto the stage, if I do how do I stop it from auto playing and only play when the button is rolled-over. Thanks in advance.