# I'm doing something dumb
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-doing-something-dumb/60351
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 9, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-doing-something-dumb/60351 "2004-08-09T07:40:28Z")
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### Author:  [@jwhitmill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jwhitmill)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-doing-something-dumb/60351/1 "2004-08-09T07:40:28Z")
…but can’t quite figure out what it is.
Best Practices seems to recommend putting all my ActionScript code in an Actions layer, but when I do that and then test the movie, there is invariably a brief moment where I get:
“Current selection cannot have actions supplied to it”
Then the movie loads and, of course, doesn’t work.
This happens even when I’m doing tutorials - though sometimes they work, after a bit. very odd, that.
Any qucik guesses on what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-doing-something-dumb/60351/2 "2004-08-09T12:15:16Z")
The long and short of things is that you’re not placing your ActionScript entirly in the first frame.
You might want to check to see that you don’t have a button or an image that has ActionScript attached to it.
😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-doing-something-dumb/60351/3 "2004-08-09T12:26:39Z")
I’ll look into this. I did some more fiddling with things, and though I’m stil getting the message, the code is working.
It could be I need to try getting a bit more than an hour of sleep each night. 😉
Thanks!
> [@newhopekenny](#):
>
> The long and short of things is that you’re not placing your ActionScript entirly in the first frame.
>
> You might want to check to see that you don’t have a button or an image that has ActionScript attached to it.
>
> 😉