# Button isnt working ( external .swf thing )

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**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-isnt-working-external-swf-thing/39039 "2004-01-02T14:10:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![doOfus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@doOfus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/doOfus)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-isnt-working-external-swf-thing/39039/1 "2004-01-02T14:10:11Z")

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ok, im not very good at explaining things but ill do my best… :-\

i have two .swfs… one is called big.swf ( played in fullscreen mode ) and the other is called content.swf ( this is the .swf that is called into the big.swf )

and in my content.swf is a navigation menu… which would lead to other parts of the content file. the first button that i made works perfectly, even when i play it in the big.swf…

but the second button is all messed up !! it supposed to lead to a frame ( still in the content.swf ) called “media”. now, this button works fine when i test the content.swf alone… but when i play it in the big.swf, it deletes the content.swf from the big.swf instead , leaving me with a blank screen… (i hope im still making sense)

i have no idea what im doing wrong since i put the exact same code on the second button as the first button…

here is the code on my button :

on(rollOver){  
this.gotoAndplay(“over”);

on(release){  
\_parent.gotoAndPlay(“media”);  
\_parent.removeMovieClip(“container”);  
}

as you can see, there is an on(rollOver) command… that’s because its really a button placed in a Movie Clip ( since i wanted to have roll over and roll out effects on my button - the fade in … fade out kind of effect )

the \_parent.removeClip(“container”) is for removing a movie clip that is found in a section of the container.swf. that code is also found in the first button… so i dont think that that’s the problem…

can any of you guys point out what im doing wrong?? i really need help on this… :red: