# Crazy button has a mind of its own!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-button-has-a-mind-of-its-own/263083
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 12, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-button-has-a-mind-of-its-own/263083 "2008-06-12T13:45:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@aligray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aligray)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-button-has-a-mind-of-its-own/263083/1 "2008-06-12T13:45:56Z")
Hi guys hope someone can help. Ive just got a simple button, on mouse over it clanges colour which all works fine and on the hit state i want to embed a movie clip that makes the button slide up like a tab. ive embedded a working movie clip but it doesnt work when the button is clicked. any ideas? im going crazy here! its in AS3 by the way
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### Author:  [@tizbo1423](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tizbo1423)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-button-has-a-mind-of-its-own/263083/2 "2008-06-12T13:56:14Z")
i’m not sure how to fix that, but i have a question for you if you don’t mind. how do you make buttons work with AS3?! I make the buttons. The roll over works (i don’t even know how to make it roll up like a tab… how do you do that?). But, i can’t add actions to it, so when the button is clicked, it will never go anywhere. do you know how to make them clickable with AS3??
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### Author:  [@aligray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aligray)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-button-has-a-mind-of-its-own/263083/3 "2008-06-12T14:02:22Z")
yeah its all about as3. you need to put in the timeline of where the button is some code. Something like this:
var yourbuttonLoader:Loader = new Loader();
yourbuttonLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, youbuttonLoaded);
yourButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, yourbuttonClickHandler);
function armsClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
yourbuttonLoader.load(new URLRequest(“pageYouWantToLoad.swf”));
}
function yourbuttonLoaded(event:Event):void
{
addChild(yourbuttonLoader);
}
where you give the button an instance name and replace the corresponding text. this will open a swf in the current document but if yo get to grips with this you can tell it to do anything.
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### Author:  [@tizbo1423](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tizbo1423)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-button-has-a-mind-of-its-own/263083/4 "2008-06-12T14:10:57Z")
yeaaaaaa i definitely don’t understand any of that stuff, haha. thanks a lot, i’ll just have to learn AS i guess. i just wish flash had like a button for everything instead of having to know AS.