Getting Root to play in External SWF's

programming flash
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Hi, =) Sorry i am sure this has been asked several times before, but i have been searching all day and cannot find anything, i always get close, but then never works and i would be greatful for your help :slight_smile:

I am making a website and there is an empty SWF that is the base for my site. It loads up an external page called the Home page, in that home page are movie clips that are told to .play() with a _root command. What i wanted to know, was how do i get those buttons to play those movie clips inside of itself.

MAIN EMPTY SWF __
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HOME PAGE SWF (which is loaded into an empty movie clip in MAIN)
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|__ Fading movie clip (which is inside of HOME PAGE, given a _root.fadewhite.play() by a button inside of HOME PAGE SWF

In short, how do i refer to the movie clip to play that is inside of HOME PAGE SWF which was loaded into an empty movie clip inside of MAIN EMPTY SWF?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP! :smiley:

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Hey! I figured it out ! :smiley: Thanks to anyone who took time to read this,

The Solution:

I added a [COLOR=Olive]this[/COLOR] statement instead of [COLOR=Blue]_root[/COLOR] :smiley: . The this statement is talking about the swf that it is contained in, so [COLOR=DarkOrange]this[/COLOR].[COLOR=Gray]movieclip3.play()[/COLOR] would refer to the loaded movie clip that it is inside of :slight_smile: