# Buttons not working / recognized?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-not-working-recognized/227467>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-not-working-recognized/227467 "2007-05-30T15:21:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![halian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/45deac/32.png) [@halian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/halian)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-not-working-recognized/227467/1 "2007-05-30T15:21:14Z")

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Has anyone come across this?

I’ve created a button with a rollover state and everything. Popped it on the stage and gave it an instance name of “myBtn\_btn”.

on root i wrote this:

myBtn\_btn.onRelease = function(){  
trace(“hello world”);  
}

but nothing happens.  
I have many other buttons. all do different things and work find.  
everything has a different instance name. no linkage is the same.  
I’ve double checked and triple checked that the name is “myBtn\_btn” in the function AND the button. I’ve even tried recreating a different button with different names and still nothing. It’s like I can’t make any more button actions.

any clues?