# One movie button controlling another movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/one-movie-button-controlling-another-movie/57571>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 14, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/one-movie-button-controlling-another-movie/57571 "2004-07-14T12:33:35Z")\
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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:** [July 14, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/one-movie-button-controlling-another-movie/57571/1 "2004-07-14T12:33:35Z")

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Hi,

I saw on an earlier thread that someone was trying to get a button on one movie clip to talk to another movie clip to play an anamation.

Basically I have two movie clips loaded on different layers… one containing the buttons the other a series of images that show one at a time depending on what button you rollover.

The movieclip with the images has stop commands inbetween each picture and was activated by a:

on(rollover){  
\_root.clipname.gotoAndPlay(framename);  
}

when the two clips were in the same movie.

Question:

Now the clips are separate and in different layers how do I get the button movieclip to communicate with the image movieclip.

I’ve tried the:

on(rollover){  
this.\_parent.movieclipname.gotoAndPlay(framename);

but nothing happens?

I hope somebody understands what I’m on about?

Thanks

Spence