Buttons within other movies?

programming flash
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im using _root.clipname.gotoandplay(frame)

as the tell target to play the clip, what I think its doing is looking in the “Main” movie to play the clip, instead of “advertisement” where the clip is located

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Your getting confused with the term ‘tell target’. Tell target is a deprecated method from before flash 5. Instead from Flash 5 onwards they use of dot syntax i.e _root.clipname.gotoandplay(frame) is used.

Well you’ve got buttons in a mc, thats in a mc thats on the _root. Then that is loaded into a different swf. So you still need to reference the full path to it. But i’m trying something to make it shorter.

V.

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This is what i put for the first thumbnail button:

[AS]on (release) {
_root.contents1.contents2.NTC1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.contents1.contents2.panda1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.contents1.contents2.WWC1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.contents1.contents2.Task1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.contents1.contents2.TODL1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.contents1.contents2.TSW1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.contents1.contents2.ES1.gotoAndPlay(2);
}[/AS]

So _root.contents1.contents2.theClipName.gotoAndPlay(2); is the relative path from the main1.swf through to the movie clip in the advertisements.swf.

Hope that helps.
Viru.

P.S I’m going to work on a more code efficient way that isnt so dependent on path, but will do the same thing.

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awesome! thank you!