# Symbol Definitions - problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-definitions-problem/319630>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 27, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-definitions-problem/319630 "2011-02-27T12:30:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![sicga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sicga](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sicga)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-definitions-problem/319630/1 "2011-02-27T12:30:36Z")

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Hi

I’m trying to get back into doing Flash after a couple of years so I opened a project I partly completed some time ago in order to finish it off.

I tried to reproduce the actionscript 2 code in Flash 8 but there is a section in symbolic definitions i forget what I did and now can’t remember.

Basically I’m dragging various puzzle pieces across the screen - they are set up as movie clips and the only working piece is set up with on press() and on release(). In the symbolic definition the working movie clip has a subsection defined as a button which refers to the instance of the movie clip. There is no button in the scene but I guess this is how I originally got the on press() stuff to work.

My question is how to get the Movie clip to refer to a button symbol which refers to an instance of the movie clip which only shows up in the symbol definitions section. (confused yet?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.