# Movieclips talking to Movieclips?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclips-talking-to-movieclips/49147>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 20, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclips-talking-to-movieclips/49147 "2004-04-20T10:28:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![spence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@spence](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spence)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclips-talking-to-movieclips/49147/1 "2004-04-20T10:28:41Z")

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Hi,

Probably a silly question (had a few late nights!!)…

Can I communicate between movieclips?

I have a movieclip containing some buttons but I would like the buttons to tell another loaded movieclip to do something?

Im not sure what to put before the gotoandplay option ie:

on(press){

… gotoAndPlay(“text”);  
}

etc

Thanks

Spence