[Flash8] Trying to get AS to play from a movie clip

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Hello, This is my first post.

I am having the hardest time trying to get AS to play from within a MC called “content_002”.

Please remember that this AS is an XML-Driven sub-menu that successfully works on it’s own. When I tie it into a MC, it doesn’t like to work with my shifting main-menu.

For this post, I’ll first send the “combined” .fla file then I will post them apart to see if anyone can find a better way.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Finkster

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Here are the origionals separated.

Thanks again!

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don’t tell me you have stuck something inside an MC, then don’t understand why it isn’t working

the path is different

_root. is also a classic, when you place an MC in an MC, you need this._parent, or this

_root will point to whatever is the base container file

…

ideally what you should be doing is have all the code on the base timeline controlling every MC from there as a universal point of reference,

(although I usually don’t)

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ok, thanks for reminding me of that.
I’m still not sure where to trigger the command.
Sorry if I seem ignorant.

[quote=randomagain;2353499]don’t tell me you have stuck something inside an MC, then don’t understand why it isn’t working

the path is different

_root. is also a classic, when you place an MC in an MC, you need this._parent, or this

_root will point to whatever is the base container file[/quote]

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Just a heads up… My “ignorance” here is comming from the code “main-menu” that was previously created by someone else. I’m just trying to fit the “sub-menu” into it to expand the look. I just do not know how to tie the two togather.

Hope that helps.

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you have code

_root[‘bt’+i]._y += i*22;

the root is wrong, it should be this instead

**this **meaning the MC it is in, in other words “here”

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Note: Quotes used here are not in the code.

In the actions of “content_002”, I entered “this.” behind the lines that started with “_root” and nothing changed.

I figured that the play head was already there at this time, so I then replaced “_root” with “this” and that didn’t work either.

From the “combined” file that I have sent, did it work for you?
If so, please let me know if I left something out.

Maybe there is a completely different way to go about this???

Thanks for your help!

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What gets me is that when I am in that scene, I test the scene and it plays fine!
I just cannot get it to play nice with the sliding menu when it all plays!

Anyone???

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Is it just me or is there no way to use two scripts with “i++” in the same file???

-Update: They can be played together. I lined them up on the same timeline and they play fine.

BUT I cannot get the ■■■■ sub-menu to play within the MC of the main-menu!!!

Is this a challenge or what???

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Does anyone have any ideas???

I don’t mind thinking outside the box as long as I achieve the same effect.
Files are provided at the beginning of this post.

Desperation is setting in…

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Thank you randomagain for trying to help.

As for this post, my problem is still not solved.
I’m about to give up on this look and try something else.

I thought that this would be fairly easy for someone who knows more than I do (which isn’t hard to do).

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strange as it may seem that’s why people get paid for coding things

if you can’t figure it out… pay someone to do it for you.

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I’m at a loss… I guess I cannot get the exact syntax down.

Someone close this post.