# Buttons don't work under mask

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-dont-work-under-mask/192086
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-dont-work-under-mask/192086 "2006-06-26T01:26:41Z")
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### Author: ![zaba\_doo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c77e96/32.png) [@zaba\_doo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zaba_doo)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-dont-work-under-mask/192086/1 "2006-06-26T01:26:41Z")

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ok,

so, i’ve built a simple scrolling text box. the box works perfectly on its own and in scene 1 but when i put it into the masked movie file that contains all of the page info the buttons don’t scoll the text like they should.

[http://www.andrewharry.ca/test/robot2.swf](http://www.andrewharry.ca/test/robot2.swf)

click the “news” button to get to the bit i’m talking about.

any ideas?