flash actionscript: I am embarrassed to ask this question. But how do you activate a button that
is embedded in a movie clip? Do you use the linkage properties to export for
ActionScript or is there another way?

Gizay

What do you mean by activate a button? Are you talking about enabling the
button or where you can click it and perform some action? You don't need to do
any linkage. You should just be able to create the proper path that leads to
that button (assuming it has an instance name). Whatever instance name you have
for the movie clip that contains the button, make sure that instance name is
included in your scripting path. Your question seemed a little confusing, so if
I didn't shed any light, then can you be a little more specific with your
question?

i would also like to create a botton but how do you create a rollover link like
when you rollover it takes you to a differen frame i am trying to create
something like on http://www.zune.net at the bottum of the page where multiple
objects are moving when the mouse is over one

I'm also having a similar problem. Can you shed any light? I'm sure it's a
stupid scope issue, but it's driving me mad today. I've got a prebuilt mc that
has a bunch of movieclips inside of it. I've then attached the prebuilt mc to
the stage dynamically at run-time. For some reason, the instanced mc's inside
of it won't respond. Here's my code below. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Greg
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function instantiateOptions() {
attachMovie("options_mc", "options_mc", 1000);
options_mc.cost1_x.onPress = function(){
trace("cost1_x pressed");
}
}

Please, if you people have similar issues to a current post, PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE create your own topic and not add it to the original posting. This ONE
post now has 3 different issues from 3 different people.

My apologies, Shandy. Sometimes it takes knowing the solution before knowing if
you are experiencing the same problem or one best asked elsewhere.

Nonetheless, I'll summarize my solution here rather than make a new post to
simply do so.

In my case, I created the problem by attaching a onRollOver call to the parent
movie clip. By doing this, I couldn't assign new button states to it's
children. The solution is to use another, perhaps invisible button that is not
part of the parent, or create the button with something that is a child just
like the other children, which will be buttons in themselves.

Gizay, there a lot of things that could potentially cause you to not be able
to target your sub-buttons (like my example), but in general, you can simply
target it using a relative path from you to the target. For example, in my
case, I'd target the sub-button from the root like:
parent.child.onRollover=function(){trace("hi")};
but if I were writing my code from the parent's timeline (which I try not to
do), it might look like:
child.onRollover=function(){trace("hi")};
You can also target from a child of the parent, to another child, which might
look like:
this._parent.child.onRollOver=function(){trace("hi")};

Hope it helps.
-Greg