# How to access butting inside a movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-access-butting-inside-a-movie-clip/309961>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 28, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-access-butting-inside-a-movie-clip/309961 "2010-05-28T14:34:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![m00nchile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@m00nchile](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m00nchile)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-access-butting-inside-a-movie-clip/309961/1 "2010-05-28T14:34:36Z")

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Hello guys! This is my first post here, so hi to everyone.  
Now, my problem is as follows:  
I’m trying to make a simple fake os in cs4. I’ve made a start menu movie clip, that contains buttons (my computer, settings, etc), and then I imported the menu movie clip to another project. Displaying the menu when clicking on the start button was no problem, but now I don’t know how to define actions on the buttons. Since most of the buttons in the menu will also be present on the desktop as icons, I’d like to make a common function, that both icons and menu items can call. I’m more into Java, and am doing this project as a project for school, so I’m pretty new to actionscript, but looking through tutorials, I’m making pretty good progress.

EDIT: sorry for the misspelling on the forum topic.  
EDIT2: sorry again, but due to my inexperience with flash, I hadn’t noticed the buttons have shown up in the library.