problems linking to buttons

[abbott567]

on a previous website i made i had this cool way of having the selected page animate on it being loaded up...

however on a new design i cant get it to work saying as instead of using a button as such i am using a movieclip to animate the button and the hit section of the button is actually within the movie clip

the code was this

nextMovie = currMovie = "home_page_mc";

page1_btn_hit.onRelease = function() {
if(currMovie == "page1_mc"){
stop();
}else{
_root[nextMovie].gotoAndPlay("fadeOut");
nextMovie = currMovie = "page1_mc";
}
};

page2_btn_hit.onRelease = function() {
if(currMovie == "page2_mc"){
stop();
}else{
_root[nextMovie].gotoAndPlay("fadeOut");
nextMovie = currMovie = "page2_mc";
}
};

this worked when i was using simple buttons on the same stage as the movieclips which were the pages...

ive tried
_root.page1_btn_hit.onRelease = function()

and all sorts of combinations of _root etc

but i just cant seem to get them to link up with each other how intended

'page1_mc' is the page with the contents on it.
'page1_btn_hit' is the hit section of the button within a movie clip called 'page1_btn_anim_mc'

thanks for any help in advance

 

[oldnewbie]

Do you have onRollOver and/or onRollOut handlers set on the movie clip holder itself?



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