Movie Clips in flash mx

Im tryin to get an internal movie clip to play when called with a button inside my movie but i can't find any code that'll allow me to do this.
i can only find code that will let me call an external .swf movie.

Can anyone help me please?

Hi,

for this example i'll assume you have a single button and a single movie clip in the root.

Left click on the movie and give it an instance name "myMovie" in the properties window.
Then left click on the button. Open the actionscript panel and enter:

on(release)
{
myMovie.gotoAndPlay(1);
myMovie.gotoAndStop("frank");
myMovie._alpha = 50;
}

Well the release bit should really do something you want it to and not just random things like I entered.

That should do it.

-Tann

Hi
Thanks for replying

i've tried wot u said but i still can't get it to work

i'm bascially creating an interactive map and when u roll over a certain street(button) within the map i want info contained within a movie clip to appear.

i tried inserting the movieclip into the rollover state of the button but this means it appears when the mouse accidentally rollovers where i want the movie clip to appear

any suggestions?

Hi, I made an example up for you to have a look at.

-Tann

hi

thanks! thats working great now.
can't say thanks enuf, it was driving me mad

Babs