movieClips on the stage

Can anyone point me toward a tute that shows me how to tell if 1 of 4 movieclips is on the stage on a button press????

I don't know of a tut,but you could try using the movie clip changing a variable. ie.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
clipchecker1 = "true";
}

The variable would be set to false when the button is pressed than the clip would set it to true becuase of it's enter frame loop.
See if this helps

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...t=tracethis%2A