# Help With buttons control or move Player

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-buttons-control-or-move-player/324178>\
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**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-buttons-control-or-move-player/324178 "2011-08-06T17:57:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Rymal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Aaron\_Rymal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Aaron_Rymal)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-buttons-control-or-move-player/324178/1 "2011-08-06T17:57:55Z")

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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.