# Movie Clip Buttons inside MovieClips?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-buttons-inside-movieclips/194785>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-buttons-inside-movieclips/194785 "2006-07-26T10:07:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![fenomnon64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@fenomnon64](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fenomnon64)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-buttons-inside-movieclips/194785/1 "2006-07-26T10:07:06Z")

</div>

Hey wutsup guys,  
OK i Have a Timeline problem. Basically my question is… can you place movie clip buttons inside other movie clips? The problem I am having is my button\_mc are working…but since they are not on the main timeline, and is in a movie clip, the cursor is not detecting the buttons. So is there a way? do I need like an “\_root” or “\_parent”? any theory or help would be appreciated. Incase you need a visual:

[http://www.chriscerros.com/site.html](http://www.chriscerros.com/site.html)

basically when you slide over a certain area to the left, the sliding\_mc contains thumbs that are movie clip buttons…but I am not sure how to call them out in scripting. they are just going to load external swf’s into the placholder where you see the image in the background. :cyclops:

Thanks Dood’s.  
:sen: