# Another controlling movieclips question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-controlling-movieclips-question/215379>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 6, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-controlling-movieclips-question/215379 "2007-02-06T22:19:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![thegrrraue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@thegrrraue](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thegrrraue)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-controlling-movieclips-question/215379/1 "2007-02-06T22:19:13Z")

</div>

I have this working pretty well now, but I have hit a snag that I can’t seem to get around.

I’m trying to create a button that triggers the movieclips in the rollovers of my other buttons to draw attention to them. I am doing this by creating a movieclip and putting it on the stage in the first scene. I have, by testing, noticed that I am successfully getting the button to trigger the start of this movieclip.

Within this movieclip, called “titlebarFREAKOUT”, though, is where the trouble arises. I have put the following code onto one of the frames in titlebarFREAKOUT.

> \_parent.titlebarTCPsideways.titlebartcpRO.gotoAndPlay(1);  
> I used parent because titlebarFREAKOUT is located within the main scene, which is also the location of titlebarTCPsideways. Within titlebarTCPsideways (a button), on the roll over frame, is titlebartcpRO.

Yes, I named all the instances, yes they’re all on the stage. Does anybody have an idea as to why it isn’t working?