i feel silly! attachMovie problem

[kdzines]

hey,

i am working on a menu with sub menus and am using attachMovie for the first time.

i have an mc inside which there are 3 mc buttons:

butt1
butt2
butt3

the linkage name is "subnav" and export in first frame is checked.
i have an empty mc on the main stage called "subholder"

on the main stage i have these actions on a frame:




mainbutt.onPress = function(){
subholder.attachMovie("subnav", "subnav1", 5);
}



ok, so far so good. When i click mainbutt, the subnav movie is attached and everything is perfect.

here is the problem.

now i want to ad code on the main stage to get the sub buttons to do things.

so i wrote this:



subnav1.butt1.onPress = function(){
trace("clicked");
}


just to test my pathing. Well it didn't work!

other pathing i tried:

_root.subnav1.butt1.onPress
_root.subholder.subnav1.butt1.onPress

i'm being an idiot and doing something wrong. Can anyone figure out what?

if i name the instance of the attached movie as "subnav1", then why am i having trouble dealing with it once that mc is attached?

sure its something simple, cheers

kd

[ahmed]

mainbutt.onPress = function(){
subholder.attachMovie("subnav", "subnav1", ++d);
}

[kdzines]

uhm, thanks for replying, but that didn't make it work.

i have put different depths for the different subnavs i'm using so they do not replace each other.

any more help or explanation would be appreciated.

cheers

[Voetsjoeba]

Are you sure you gave instance names and didn't make any typos ?