Buttons not responding to external onRelease event def

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hi,
i have been working with this for a while and it’s such an easy problem to fix i’m sure, but i can’t seem to find what i am doing wrong.

I don’t want to assign code to each button individually for the sake of maintenance, but that’s the only way i can get this thing working.

the buttons simply don’t respond to the actions defined in their onRelease events…


btn_Instance.onRelease = function() {
  gotoAndPlay(frame);
  getURL("javascript:loadContent('content');");
}

i have tried it with simple traces and nothing happens thinking that it might be a focus issue as well i tried:


    this._focusrect = false;
    Selection.setFocus(this);

in the external code for the buttons but nothing seems to be helping.

i’ve attached the .fla that i’m using for this.

any help is appreciated. thanks!