Help With buttons control or move Player

Lets take in example. .

(you place a ball/ ship / or Watever you choosed to use as your player).

  • You write in .as 3.0 , Not on Timeline…

You created a DPAD Movieclip , Placed it on the time line, and created a dpad.as

Now where im lost is, How to make that movieclip, in the frame, with the buttons… control the ship… . . . Any help or guide line would be useful. . .

i been pulling my hair out, Moving from AS2, to AS3… trying to figure the new commands, and eventlisteners…

(the ideals are) i have ship instance… with a ship.as . . class.
we need to make the dpad_Mc’s buttons interact with that ship.
from inside a dpad.as class…

Please help.