# Functional buttons stop working after reopening parent mc?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/functional-buttons-stop-working-after-reopening-parent-mc/310034>\
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**Created:** [May 31, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/functional-buttons-stop-working-after-reopening-parent-mc/310034 "2010-05-31T00:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![keter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@keter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/keter)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/functional-buttons-stop-working-after-reopening-parent-mc/310034/1 "2010-05-31T00:14:14Z")

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hello people,

i’m a flash newb, wrestling with actionscript 3 and ran into a problem with a drop down menu.  
the menu is composed of nested movie clips that open and close, and contain buttons that control a ui loader in scene 1. it seemed to be working all right until i realized that after opening and closing and reopening a submenu, the buttons that worked the first time stopped controlling the ui loader. since there aren’t any error messages i’m kind of at a loss as to what needs fixing. maybe a timeline issue?

thanks for any help, you have no idea. if you could keep your vocabulary to something an idiot child could understand, i would definitely appreciate it.