# Flash MX Button Question?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 12, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070 "2003-06-12T13:42:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![JenniferSal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JenniferSal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JenniferSal)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070/1 "2003-06-12T13:42:04Z")

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Hi! I’m VERY new to Flash MX, I usually have been posting over in the MX forum, but i finally got the upgrade (whoo hoo!)! 🙂 I have been contemplating an interactive sliding background/button possibility and Ilyas and someone else have been quite helpful and i know the basics of it now. I do have one other question though! On this example, the buttons to load the different backgrounds are in the right hand corner of the main background image that loads. [http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/charliesangels2/base.swf](http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/charliesangels2/base.swf)

My question is, how do they get the buttons that you click on to turn into buttons for the ‘main’ background that first loaded? No matter which button you click on, it does this, and ive never seen a Flash 5 tutorial for something like this, so im assuming its a MX concept. Any help or ideas or where to find a tutorial to do something like that would be greatly appreciated! (if i knew what the name of that concept was i would search for it, but im not sure what that type of function is called! Tried looking though!) Thanks in advance!!

Jen

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070/2 "2003-06-12T13:53:45Z")

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Oh no! Not again! 😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070/3 "2003-06-12T13:56:14Z")

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Aww, you hurt my feelings, sniff! Nah, I’m kidding!! 🙂  
:thumb:

Jen

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**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070/4 "2003-06-14T16:34:14Z")

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All right, here you go. All you’d have to do is put a mask on it to get the same effect as in your site.

pom :phil:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-button-question/23070/5 "2003-06-16T04:15:02Z")

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Hi,

Just out of curiosity and interest, I tested the FLA file and it seems although you can click any of the 4 buttons and the movie flows according to your selection, you might notice that after you finish clicking all the 4 buttons and roll back, you can no longer “restart” the effect in anyway.

Clicking and clicking again on any of those buttons don’t seem to trigger the effect anymore.