# Help with action

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-action/214434>\
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**Created:** [January 29, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-action/214434 "2007-01-29T01:34:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![jerryxlv9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@jerryxlv9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jerryxlv9)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-action/214434/1 "2007-01-29T01:34:28Z")

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greetings! what I’m trying to do is get out of the habit of writing actions on buttons(I’m kinda new at this flash stuff)any how,I have a mail form in a movie clip my code looks like this- on (release) {  
tellTarget ("\_root.contact") {  
gotoAndPlay(“start”);  
} when I try onRelease (inside the actions layer I get an error message.also if someone could recommend a good book on action scripting.thanks jerry