movieclip control

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Hi.
I have 2 movieclips, both feature some buttons. In my main movie I want a button that is within movie clip 1, when clicked, to show and start the other movie clip. What is the best way to achieve this (in Flash MX) ?
I am not sure about best practice in Flash so am getting in somewhat of a muddle.
Many thanks if you can help me.
Andrew.

 

[oldnewbie]

Assuming your second movie clip had the instance name of "mc2", and was stopped on it's first blank keyframe (thus invisible), you could start it from a button in your other movie clip with the following...

on(release){
_root.mc2.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

 

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Thanks!
That did the trick.