# Beginners Unluck

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256 "2003-02-10T21:56:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Ainriail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Ainriail](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ainriail)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/1 "2003-02-10T21:56:39Z")

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Hello Everyone. I need Help. I made a movie with 2 different scenes & I want to link them together. However The way that I have it set up is I created a symbol in the first scene. I added buttons over various parts of this symbol and tried to link it with the script, “on (press) {  
gotoAndPlay(“2”, 1);  
}”  
In my movie if I play it the menu comes up but when I put my mouse over the part to link it, the menu dissapears. With this script it links scene 1 and 2 fine. But not the symbol:run:  
Any help you can give will be really apreciated.  
Thanks,

Marc:asian:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/2 "2003-02-10T23:08:44Z")

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Create frame labels in each scene and then have your buttons target the frame labels instead, it should work if you use something like this:

```php
on (press){
	_root.gotoAndPlay("blah");
}

```

Or this:

```php
on (press){
	gotoAndPlay("blah");
}

```

Depending on where you buttons are located, one of those 2 should work. =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/3 "2003-02-13T22:43:19Z")

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I can’t thank you enough man. It worked fine. It really saved me hours of looking online for the answer. Nice web page also. I love your 3D images. I am an avid user of lighwave, but your stuff kicks \*\*\*. Thanks again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/4 "2003-02-13T23:38:33Z")

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I’m glad it worked out for you and thanks for the comments as awell. I’m glad you like my work. =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/5 "2003-02-20T23:19:59Z")

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Thanks for the quick help last time but I was wondering. The button makes my homemade dropdown menu dissapear. I don’t even have the chance to click on the button. Does anyone know how to fix this? It is a minor problem after the last one but it is still troubling. Thank you very Much.  
Marc

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/6 "2003-02-20T23:34:08Z")

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Is your dropdown menu in all the scenes? If you go to another scene and it’s not there then it will dissappear after you click the button.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/7 "2003-02-21T00:19:15Z")

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The drop down menu is in all the scenes but I only did the editing in scene 1. I just copied and pasted the frame to the others. Would this have anything to do with it? Sometimes it also disapears before I can get my mouse over the buttons.  
Thanks again,  
Marc

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-unluck/13256/8 "2003-02-21T00:50:01Z")

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I’m not sure how your setup is, but maybe using scenes could be the problem. :-\