# Link button to movieclip...?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-button-to-movieclip/114048>\
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**Created:** [June 24, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-button-to-movieclip/114048 "2004-06-24T05:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![tanvi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@tanvi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tanvi)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-button-to-movieclip/114048/1 "2004-06-24T05:27:43Z")

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[font=Arial]hi all,

i am a newbee to actionscript…  
so please help me out with this problem…  
just understand this…

i have a movie which has 3 buttons which on clicking plays a 3 respective movieclips.lets call them movieclips MC1 MC2 MC3…

1). how do i link a button to a movieclip…???..what actionscript do i implement…??

2). when i placed my 3 buttons in a movieclip and after assigning them action to it(that is linking to movieclip), it did not show any action…why this happens…???..how could it be resolved…???[/font]

[font=Arial]i tried putting as to button but it doesnt work…::[/font]  
[font=Arial]on (press) {  
mc1.play();  
}

please help me

Thanks in advance…  
tanvi [/font]