Find my movieClips own target

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Hi there,

I’m not sure if this is the completely wrong question to ask, as I’m starting to think there could be a very simple solution. (The “return” command keeps coming to mind), However:

I have a movieClip, within a movieClip… within a movieClip.

For instance: myContainer.myMovieclip.myButton
[SIZE=1](These are actually dynamically loaded many times using for loops)[/SIZE]

On the root, I have a function similar to this:

function makeMeWider (newWidth:Number, theTarget:String):void {
    theTarget.width = newWidth;
}

And in the “myButton”, I’d like to have somthing like this:

MovieClip(this.root).makeMeWider (200, this.target);

It’s kind of a reverse way of doing things, but nether-the-less it would be really handy if I could pull this off.

The problem really, is that I can’t tell the “makeMeWider” function, the path/directory of where “myButton” is.

Is the a simple command? Or am I just not thinking strait?

Cheers,

Mark Notton