# \_root problem!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/93771>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 4, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/93771 "2003-11-04T19:07:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![flan0000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@flan0000](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flan0000)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/93771/1 "2003-11-04T19:07:44Z")

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Here’s the thing:

I’m trying to jump from scene to scene and run a script which controls horizontal movement.

At first i couldn’t even get it jump from scene to scene from the buttons in the movie clip but now using the \_root i can…but i can’t access the setProperty /scroll function. If tried all aspects of the \_root and will no results.

If i put the button at the top it works fine (see A in SWF) but in the movie clip it does nothing (see B in SWF).

same code for both:

on (release) {  
\_root.gotoAndStop(3);  
}  
on (release) {  
setProperty(\_root.scroll, \_x, -(Number(mw)));  
}

It needs to flip seamless between both English & Welsh, as it does on the A button in the SWF.

How come it doesn’t work insidethe MC?

Cheers

steve

[http://www.brazilnewmedia.com/test/](http://www.brazilnewmedia.com/test/)

The fla can be downloaded form this test page.

PLEASE HELP…VERY, VERY STUCK