# Tearing hair out, probly been asked, button in MC

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**Created:** [July 5, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tearing-hair-out-probly-been-asked-button-in-mc/193198 "2006-07-05T04:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slade\_Templar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Slade\_Templar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Slade_Templar)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tearing-hair-out-probly-been-asked-button-in-mc/193198/1 "2006-07-05T04:45:33Z")

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Hi all,  
I’ve been agonizing over getting this to work for several hours now, hopefully i can get some resolution here. Now apparently flash doesnt like it when you attach actionscript directly to a movieclip inside of a movieclip, im not really sure why, something about being sloppy.  
Inside of the initial movie clip (which is a popup box) i have another movie clip (which really is a button) that I want to assign:

on(release){  
getURL …;  
}

this doesnt work inside of the movie clip, it works fine on the main timeline. So then i found the crap in the help file about not doing what i have above, so i said sure whatever, and made the geturl a function on frame 1 of the main timeline.

email\_butt.onRelease = function(){  
getURL(“[http://www.galefire.com](http://www.galefire.com)”, “\_blank”);  
};

so now I have this function, and it ALSO works fine in the main timeline, just like a clickable button like i want. But it still doesnt work INSIDE of the movie clip. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong so i can finish this stupid problem and get done with this website?