Element of child.swf not loading into parent

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ok - I am very new to all of this

so to explain as best I can - I have a child.swf (daypre.swf) loading into a parent.swf (contiki.swf).
The child.swf has hover captions. These display fine when I view the child.swf independently - but when it is loaded into the parent only the hover artwork runs and not the text!
I have used the kirupa hover caption tutorial.exactly!

can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong?

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are you loading into an empty container mc?

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yes! I am loading into an empty mc

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now that your initial .swf is loaded into another the _root of that initial swf (the one that works on it’s own) has been consumed by the .swf you are loading it into.

so:

startDrag(_root.caption, true);

is referring to an instance of “caption” which does not exist at the _root level anymore.

you need to incorporate the empty container Mc that you’re loading into in any path that refers to “caption.” like this:

startDrag(_root.container.caption, true);

“container” being the instance name of your empty container mc"

you may need to evaluate the rest of the code and change any paths to objects to follow this path…

good luck!

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ok so just to be super annoying - it didn’t work!

it makes sense - what you are saying - but then wouldn’t the background artwork also not load if the path is not correctly defined?

Also I can’t find any other objects that point to this path!

i tried the exact path you suggested (with the instance name for blankMC subsitituted) and then i tried defining the path exactly in a few differnet ways - using the frame label that the the balnk MC sits on and then even the child swf!

who knows?

thanks for the help though!

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oh wait! it’s cool i worked it out! yay my first ever de-bug!

turns out that i had to define the path on each of the buttons!

you were right, thanks so much for your help!

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nice!