# Button inside movie clip problem

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-movie-clip-problem/217695
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 1, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-movie-clip-problem/217695 "2007-03-01T03:25:49Z")
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### Author: ![toriaezunama](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/toriaezunama/32/3372_2.png) [@toriaezunama](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toriaezunama)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-movie-clip-problem/217695/1 "2007-03-01T03:25:49Z")

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Hi everyone

This is my first post and I am starting with a request for a problem that I just can’t figure out.

I have a button with graphics defined for each of the states up, over, and down in it.

This button is inside a movie that resides on the main time line.

The main time line and the movie containing the button are both stopped

When i test the movie the 3 animation frames for the button just play through as if they were a movie being played (kind of a flickering effect)

Why is this? Why doesn’t the button behave like a button?

Please help cause this is driving me nuts and I have run out of ideas to explore as to why this might be happening.

Oh, if i put an instance of the button on the main time line, no problem.

Thanks  
Paul