beginner:Instance problem 1

[Themuppeteer]

I made a movieclip button (rotating on rollover, you know what I mean),
I have put it 4 times on stage.
On rollOver some text (description of the button) should
appear in a dynamic textbox also on stage.
I gave all the buttons a different name in the instance panel.
The problem is,I double clicked on the first button to enter the instructions for the onRollover (textbox="button1&quot and ALL 4 the buttons contain that text now! Like I didn't make an instance at all.

Can anyone help me ?
thnx.
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Greetz,

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[oldnewbie]

You probably have 4 different instances, and could control those 4 instances independently by referring to those instance names, but they are all instances of the same movie clip and edits to any element of one of these instances will be reflected in all instances.
What you have to do is, in the Library, duplicate your first movie clip, rename it, edit it if you want, and drag a new instance of this movie clip on stage.
Furthermore, this also applies to other movie clips, which would be included in this first movie clip. Those too would have to be duplicated and edited individually, so that any change to them, wouldn't apply to all instances of those same movie clips. Regards,

 

[Themuppeteer]

like always,very useful .
thnx a lot oldnewbie. Greetz,

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[Themuppeteer]

Just one more question,...
if I want my four buttons to each open a different browser with a different page, should I do it like this ?:

create actionscript code for my movieclip and check
if name=='button1' blabla
if name=='button2' blabla

is that the way ? Greetz,

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