# Button action in attachMovie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-action-in-attachmovie/106306>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 4, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-action-in-attachmovie/106306 "2004-04-04T14:49:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inflicted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/82dd89/32.png) [@Inflicted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Inflicted)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-action-in-attachmovie/106306/1 "2004-04-04T14:49:55Z")

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Tried searching for this problem, didn’t find anything similar.

In my movie I attach a MC’s with attachMovie.  
One of those MC’s have buttons in them.  
Those buttons are supposed to trigger an action  
on another MC that is also attached with attachMovie.  
But it doesn’t work.  
Is it impossible to trigger actions from one attached MC  
to another?

```auto
b1.onRelease = function() {
    var colorful = new color("shapes");
    colorful.setRGB(0xFFFFFF);
};

```

Tried \_parent.shapes, but doesn’t work.  
Can somebody help me with this?

thanks

[files](http://www.inflicted.nl/h_files.zip)