# Simple question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-question/294479
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 14, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-question/294479 "2009-08-14T16:02:00Z")
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### Author: ![antcuc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@antcuc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/antcuc)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-question/294479/1 "2009-08-14T16:02:00Z")

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Well, it’s probably simple for most of you. I put most of my actionscript on frame 1 of scene 1. I know that if I have a movie clip that is 10 frames long and on frame 10 a button appears in the movieclip, my actionscript on the main timeline controlling that button won’t work.

So, my work around is to turn the alpha to 0% for that button during frames 1-9. My question is, is there a better method for controlling buttons that appear later?

I’m new to the whole flash thing. I apologize for my lack of technical flash vernacular. Any help would be greatly apprecaited.