# Please help me get started!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-get-started/274362>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 28, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-get-started/274362 "2008-10-28T23:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![tsujim0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@tsujim0](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tsujim0)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me-get-started/274362/1 "2008-10-28T23:31:22Z")

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Hello, I’m in need of some help. If anyone is kind enough to pity me and give me a bit of a hand getting started with my as3 project, thankyou!

I have an as3 project. With three buttons on the main timeline. I have a movieclip on the main timeline that I want to control with the buttons. I need the buttons to do two things at once. I’ll outline 1 button, and I should be able to figure the rest out.

I need button A to move the playhead to to some other content on the main timeline.

I’ve used this code and it works:

import flash.display.MovieClip;  
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

function menuChoice1(event:MouseEvent):void {  
this.gotoAndStop(“about penbird”);  
}

NesttButton1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,  
menuChoice1);

I need the same button to simultaneously control a movie that’s inside a movie on the main timeline (it’s an animation of the eyes of a character on the main timeline).

I’m using this code which doesn’t work for reasons that are probably very obvious to you, but I’m real new to this:

function menuChoice3(event:MouseEvent):void {  
eyes1.gotoAndStop(“b”);  
}

NestButton1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL\_OVER,  
menuChoice3);

“eyes1” is the eye movie, and “b” is the frame label with the gfx I need.

This is the error message I receive:

1180: Call to a possibly undefined method eyes1.

Thanks for reading! Any help would be a real lifesaver…

Jim