Do you have trigger a mc from the root?

programming flash
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Hey;
I’m the one that’s trying to link movie clips together and have a bit more info if someone can help.

Basically on my root timeline, I have frame 1 & 2, each containing a movie clip, but when i publish the movie all that plays is the first frame of each movie clip - inotherwards just what seems to be on the main timeline and not the entire Mc sitting in frame 1, say.

Question; i had assumed that i could place each moviclip on the root timeline, and as the playhead on the root timeline hit, say frame one , it would automatically start playing that movie clip’s internal timeline.

So, am i suppose to put some sort of scritp on say frame 1 of the root timeline that instructs the playhead to leave the root and go to the MC timeline and begin to play?

thnaks
Hoss

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well, it should work as you say, when the playhead hits a frame with a MC it should start to play the MCs.

what could be happening is that the main timeline is looping it’s play, so each time it only gets to show 1 frame of your MCs before it loops around to the beginning.

Try putting a stop(); script on the last frame of your main timeline. This will keep the main stage for starting over.

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Hey you nailed it on the head - actually i had to do one more step - put a stop action on EACH frame in the root timeline and then each clip played - as an aside, any idea why each frame needed its own stop action?

Anyway, thank you so much for helping.
Hoss