# Drop Down Menu buttons won't work

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drop-down-menu-buttons-wont-work/249025
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 14, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drop-down-menu-buttons-wont-work/249025 "2008-01-14T19:19:05Z")
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### Author: ![paulcybulski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@paulcybulski](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paulcybulski)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drop-down-menu-buttons-wont-work/249025/1 "2008-01-14T19:19:05Z")

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Ok I think this should be easy, but I must have missed something…I have made a drop down menu, that through shape tweening expands when you mouse over a tab…and when its fully expanded…buttons show up…I want the buttons to perform actions when clicked, but as it is now, I cannot get them to simply trace…

I have a movieclip named tools on the main stage…this tools movieclip is the one that expands when you hover over its tab…in the tools movieclip I have a button that shows up when the tab is expanded…“jButton”

in the main movie…I am trying to access it using the following code…

tools.jButton.onRelease = function()

that does nothing…

in the tools movieclip I tried to put actionscript

jButton.onRelease = function()

this does nothing as well…please help…I am trying to make a simple tools menu which will allow the user to print or save the contents of a movieclip…as as soon as the buttons perform any action I can go on to coding the ideas above…