# Controlling internal mc

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-internal-mc/212609>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 12, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-internal-mc/212609 "2007-01-12T14:42:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![hmmaah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@hmmaah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hmmaah)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-internal-mc/212609/1 "2007-01-12T14:42:51Z")

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I imagine this is achingly simple. I have a button, with which I’d like to control the timeline of a movie-clip placed on the same layer. I got some code from the forums but its not quite doing it for me. Any advice? Many thanks.