# Easing Following Button

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easing-following-button/103434
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 5, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easing-following-button/103434 "2004-03-05T00:57:30Z")
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### Author: ![kslager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@kslager](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kslager)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easing-following-button/103434/1 "2004-03-05T00:57:30Z")

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Ill try to explain my problem as best as possible.

I wanted to create a button that followed the users mouse.

Heres what i did…

Scene1 contains a **movie** clip with the following action script.

onClipEvent (load) {  
\_x = 0;  
\_y = 0;  
speed = 45;  
}  
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {  
endX = \_root.\_xmouse;  
endY = \_root.\_ymouse;  
\_x += (endX-\_x)/speed;  
\_y += (endY-\_y)/speed;  
}

Since with a movie, you do not have access too the On Mouse Event actionscript available, i go into the movie (edit) delete its contents and insert a new button INSIDE the movie. This results in a button that follows my mouse instead of just a simple movie clip.

The problem i am having is i can not get action scripts to launch from the button. The On Mouse Event wont do anything. All i want the button to do is

on (release) {  
gotoAndPlay (“Scene2”, 1);  
}

But when i click the button nothing happens. I am fairly certain that flash is seeing this moving object as a button because in IE, the cursor changes from an arrow to a poiting finger and i am able to edit the button’s up, over, down, and hit frames which respond correctly in the movie.

I am VERY confused by this. All i can think is maybe i can not execute actionscripts from a button within an instance of a movie.

Any suggestions? hope that made sense!

Feel free to download my source at [http://www.infernalarts.com/index2.fla](http://www.infernalarts.com/index2.fla)

Keith