# Tell Target with Buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-with-buttons/33625>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 21, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-with-buttons/33625 "2003-10-21T19:51:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tekademix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tekademix](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tekademix)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-with-buttons/33625/1 "2003-10-21T19:51:13Z")

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I am currently having a problem adding the Tell Target action to a button.

The following is the hierarchy of my timeline:

-Root  
—Movie Clip (Instance Name=“FadeIn”)  
------Button (Instance Name=“Button”)  
----------Movie Clip (Instance Name=“About”)

The Movie Clip i’m trying to control is “About”. This MC is also placed within the ‘Over’ state of “Button”

I keep receiving the Target Not Found error in Base="\_level0.FadeIn"

Any advice or Syntaxes would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need anymore required information.

Thanx in advance.

Aidan

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-with-buttons/33625/2 "2003-10-22T00:34:07Z")

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What exactly are you trying to achieve?

regards

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-with-buttons/33625/3 "2003-10-22T00:39:37Z")

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I am only trying to receive a Rollover and Rollout event. I have done these many times before without problems. Could it not be working because I placed the Movie Clip within the Buttons ‘Over’ State? If so,… Is there any other ways around this problem given that I MUST keep the current timeline hierarchy?

Thanx for your response.

Regards,

Aidan

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-with-buttons/33625/4 "2003-10-22T01:01:40Z")

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i believe that you cannont path to Movieclip instances inside Buttons. you may need to create a movieclip instead of a button and apply the mouse out and over it that movie clip.