# How do you check if someone is clicking my button?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-check-if-someone-is-clicking-my-button/325484>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 18, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-check-if-someone-is-clicking-my-button/325484 "2011-10-18T15:41:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Dalek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Dalek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Doctor_Dalek)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-check-if-someone-is-clicking-my-button/325484/1 "2011-10-18T15:41:24Z")

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I have a movie clip that uses shared objects to record the number of times it was pressed. is there a way to make it show how many times everyone clicked it? also, how do you use .getRemote? it doesn’t seem to work for me.

> **[theCircle.swf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xvgUG8DoK-NjYwZjk3NGItZGJlMS00MTY4LTllNDEtMjk4NzU2NGIzYjll/view?usp=drive_web&layout=list&sort=name&num=50)**
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> A circle for everyone! you may have to reload it to get it working. I am trying to get multiplayer code working, so this is my trial. I am still working on it.