# Button morphing problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-morphing-problem/31419>\
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**Created:** [September 22, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-morphing-problem/31419 "2003-09-22T18:28:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![drone9](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/drone9/32/335_2.png) [@drone9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/drone9)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-morphing-problem/31419/1 "2003-09-22T18:28:50Z")

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thanks for reading this. 🙂  
let’s get straight to the problem:

what I want:  
a navbar with animated buttons on rollOver that change shape if clicked and keep it 'till another button is clicked.

what I did:  
created a main movie clip for the navbar. placed several movie clip buttons in the main mc. created an animation in the button movie clips (on rollOver, on rollOut) with a separate layer (it is not the buttons that are animated but the area around them).

the problem:  
how do I get the button to change shape after it is pressed? Since the button layer in the button MC is the layer with the rollOver, rollOut commands, I don’t see how I could tween the button…

Since I’m new to Flash and don’t have a lot of coding experience, I just can’t come up with a good idea… :\*(  
any help highly appreciated!