# Linking buttons inside movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 17, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741 "2002-12-17T18:06:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Jackie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@Jackie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jackie)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/1 "2002-12-17T18:06:06Z")

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hello. i am trying to link some buttons inside my movie clip to go to another scene at a certain frame (that is labeled) when i test the movie the buttons are not working. can some help me… i am new, also - do not understand actionscript very well.

this is what i have currently assigned to the button and it is not workig.

on (release) {  
\_root;  
gotoAndStop(“portfolio”, “cas”);  
}

thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/2 "2002-12-17T18:08:22Z")

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I actually just learned this little trick from someone else on this forum (electrongeek).

Ok what you want to do is… Right click on the frame in your scene named “Portfolio” that are you are targeting. Choose “Properties” to open the properties panel and then give the frame a label. Lets call it “cas” (no quotes) as you did in your example.

Now on your button… add this…

```auto
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("cas");
}

```

This is way easier than the previous method I used to get around this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/3 "2002-12-17T18:08:46Z")

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🙂

try this:

```php
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("cas");
}

```

=)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/4 "2002-12-17T18:10:27Z")

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Stop bumping me lost!:bad:

😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/5 "2002-12-17T18:14:46Z")

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LOL, sorry. I don’t do it on purpose. ☹

Oh well… I BEAT YOU!!!  
😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/6 "2002-12-17T18:29:25Z")

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hey guys, I got it to work! thank you so much!

Jackie

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/7 "2002-12-17T18:30:55Z")

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Cool 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/8 "2002-12-17T18:31:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by lostinbeta \*  
> **Oh well… I BEAT YOU!!!**

[SIZE=1]this time…[/SIZE] :bad:

😛 😛 😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-buttons-inside-movie-clips/9741/9 "2002-12-17T18:33:12Z")

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:evil: