Using a Movieclip as a button within a movieclip

[BREK]

Maybe you guys can help me. I'm stuck now. I don't think it's a hard problem I just can't seem to get it to work.

I have a Movie Clip called "Pages". In this I have movieclips that when clicked make an external movieclip called "PageR" goto a certain frame, so it can display the contents. I also have a movieclip called "currentselection" that highlights the clicked movieclip.


The code I am stuck on is this.

on (press)
{

_root.Pages.currentselection._x=(-384.6);
_root.Pages.gotoAndStop(11);
_root.PageR.gotoAndStop(27);

}

for some reason it will not do all of these instructionsThe code that doesn't work is "_root.PageR.gotoAndStop(27);" This is supposed to Make the right hand side of my webpage goto a certain frame which has the content in. Each frame is essentially a different page. It works for the other movieclips, but not for my right arrow movieclip.
WHY.?

I'd really appreciate some help. My brain is about fried.
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BREK..

[BREK]

Hee hee....

Okay I haa one more shot at it... I turned the right and left arrows into buttons and copied the code I had before into these, and it works fine now. :)

I don't understand why it works with buttons and not movie clips though.

Anyone know why?

[matt poole]

on (press) is a button event ie only works on buttons...

... to trigger events on a movie clip you need to use the onClipEvent handler.

;)