Actionscript to track play progress of an externally loaded SWF File

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I’m working through the tutorials in Flash Professional 8: Beyond the Basics to teach myself the skills I need to build a project for my day job.

The project is basically a slideshow presentation. I have controls loading into one level, an animated background into another, and then swf files loading into _level5 that the controls can pause, rewind, fast forward, and so forth. All that is in place. I have built a preloader, so I understand that part. What I am unable to figure out is how to track the totalframes and frames played on an existing level so that I can update a scrubber bar with percent played.

So, here’s a snip of code:

function loadSlide() {
    this.myMCL.loadClip("slide" + curSlideNum + ".swf", 5);
}

I run loadSlide() whenever I want to progress to the next portion of the presentation. What I would like to know, again, is how can I track the play progress of slidex.swf in _level5 so that I can present this information visually.

Thanks in advance for any help. I hope that I can become a productive member of this community over time. I hate feeling like an idiot like I do right now. I’m not much of a programmer, more of a designer, but I am enjoying actionscript so far.