# Help with root, parent and children please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-root-parent-and-children-please/206124>\
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**Created:** [November 5, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-root-parent-and-children-please/206124 "2006-11-05T16:17:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr\_pbody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mr\_pbody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mr_pbody)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-root-parent-and-children-please/206124/1 "2006-11-05T16:17:24Z")

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[SIZE=2]hi all!  
need some help with some scripting please. i really don’t know much…but enough to be destructive.  
i understand the relationships betweens roots, parents and children only in the sense that they reside in each other and are paths (?).  
**all** (root, parent, child) of my buttons will be movie clips.  
**all** of my buttons will have onRollOver, onRollOut, and onRelease animations.  
i am using flash 8  
here is what i am trying to do:

my root timeline is my opening page  
if i click mc\_button\_1 it takes me to my gallery (parent timeline) where mc\_buttons\_4,5,6 will be pictures  
if i click on a picure (mc\_button\_4) the picture enlarges and takes me to mc\_button\_7 (child timeline)  
if i click on the enlarged picture (mc\_button\_7) the picture fades and takes me back to the gallery (parent timeline)

my main buttons on the root timeline will all have simular parents and children under them so i can do the same thing with mc\_buttons\_2,3 that i am doing with mc\_button\_1  
if someone could help me get from the root to the parent then to the child i would be most grateful.

if you give me the exact coding for one path i will try and fill in the rest.

thanks so much!  
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