# Button.onRollOver problem

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-onrollover-problem/58241
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 20, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-onrollover-problem/58241 "2004-07-20T23:10:43Z")
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### Author: ![mlkedave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mlkedave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlkedave)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-onrollover-problem/58241/1 "2004-07-20T23:10:43Z")

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Well i am using the code:  
[AS]  
button.onRollOver = function(){  
this.gotoAndStop(2)  
}  
[/AS]

But the thing is i want to make it so when i roll over the movieclip with the instance name “button”, it will gotoAndStop on frame 2 of a DIFFERENT movieclip (which is located on \_root). Can someone tell me how to do this?

I thought it might look like this:  
[AS]  
button.onRollOver = function(){  
\_root.button.gotoAndStop(2)  
}  
[/AS]  
But that doesn’t seem to work.

Thanks

Mike

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-onrollover-problem/58241/2 "2004-07-20T23:16:10Z")

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```auto

button.onRollOver = function(){
    _root.movieInstanceName.gotoAndStop(2)
}

```