# Doubt with Instances

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doubt-with-instances/122566
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 14, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doubt-with-instances/122566 "2004-09-14T23:24:21Z")
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### Author: ![arturo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/arturo/32/761_2.png) [@arturo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/arturo)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doubt-with-instances/122566/1 "2004-09-14T23:24:21Z")

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[font=Arial]Hi there, maybe this is easy and I’m stupid, but let me try to explain:

I’ve a main movie, for example, this movie has 3 buttons, in each button there’s a MovieClip in the Over area, for example button1 contains a MovieClip with some animation, this clip has an Instance name clip1\_mc, ok, untill this, everything it’s ok, the effect it’s easy to achieve, when I rollover my mouse over that button, the clip called clip1\_mc starts to play, piece of cake, the problem is this, what happens if I call an extrenal .SWF, this .SWF contains a simple button, when I rollover this button I want to play my clip inside in my button in my main Movie, I cannot do this, I was trying with something like this:

on (rollOver) {  
\_parent.clip1\_mc.play();  
}

but this is not working, I’m doing something wrong, but I can’t see what is, any help?, any idea?

thanks [/font]