R – Flash button inside Movie Clip is not responding to clicks

Maybe the problem was like this:

Your original movieclip: 'originalMC' The call upon actionscript in the movieclip: 'originalMC.someRandomFunction()'

If you rename your movieclip in the Flash IDE the call wont work.

Otherwise I have to say that your statement is very vague. If you maybe could show an example of your code. I don't understand "but I couldn't get to the script anywhere in the Flash CS4 UI".

OH ... I think I do understand now. If you have actionscript inside of a movieclip, as it is common in as1 & as2, that code can easily vanish if you change type of the movieclip or even if you rename it.

What the hell am I talking ...

Assuming you're creating a button in the IDE: Because the button "down" state is only registered while its actually "down", you'd need to associate a movieclip outside of the button that is triggered on mouse down.

someButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, runClip);

private function runClip(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    _downClip.play();
}

You'd need to position it accurately, or wrap it up in another symbol.

...

Or better yet, program the whole thing in AS3 and get away from timeline development...

update -

I don't have any preferred tutorials or sites for this, in particular. But just google "as3 button tutorial" and you should get a lot of hits... this one looks pretty complete.

Oh, wait - I think I posted a class for a basic image button that could be easily altered to function with movieclips from the library... yep, its right here. The basic idea should be fairly clear if you have any experience with as3 / object oriented programming. And if its not - google away ;)

Cheers