# HELP! Buttons Inside of MC AS3 not working

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**Created:** [October 7, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-buttons-inside-of-mc-as3-not-working/272689 "2008-10-07T18:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Terraform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Terraform](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Terraform)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-buttons-inside-of-mc-as3-not-working/272689/1 "2008-10-07T18:31:03Z")

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sorry for the n00b question  
I have wasted a day of google searches and tutorial searches trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.

this is what I need done

I want a Movie Clip to house 5 buttons that will link to frame labels on the main time line.  
(this will be my main menu navigation)

I have created 5 separate buttons  
then created a Movie Clip.  
dragged each of the 5 buttons into the movie clip  
gave instance names for all of them.  
then I dragged the movie clip to my main timeline and gave that an instance name.

I then went into the Movie clip and attempted to use AS3 to get the button instances to navigate to the frame labels.

no go

when I test my movie it keeps looping through the whole main timeline no matter how many stop commands I put in the main timeline or in the Movie clip itself.

if I have no AS in the Movie clip then the movie tests with the Movie clip working (no  
scrolling through the timeline and rollover works fine but I still can not command the CLICKs)

I am sure I am overlooking something simple  
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

as a post script I have tried so many AS variables I thought it best to not enter any here  
and see if someone could help me from scratch instead of fixing an already confused problem.

THX