# Button Help?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-help/154955
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 13, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-help/154955 "2005-07-13T20:40:51Z")
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### Author: ![pavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pavid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pavid)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-help/154955/1 "2005-07-13T20:40:51Z")

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hi, i have just started learning flash, and i have a problem with a button action ☹

i want the scene to play the flash movie i created when i press the Play button. i have set up the button and everything, and mad the movie stop in an actions layer, and i tried to get it to play on release, this is what i have…

on(release) {  
play();  
}

and it says i have 1 error, its this…

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=play button, frame=3:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances  
on(release) {  
Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

can anyone help?

thanks alot

dave