Hover Captions from a MC holding a loaded swf?

programming flash
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I have a problem I hope Kirupa can help (I got the tutorial here).

I built some hover captions on my menu bar that slides out. The menu bar is a swf that’s called into the main swf from a button and loaded into a MC in the main swf.

It works as advertised until I use it in the main swf. Then, the menu/swf it’s self attatches to the mouse and won’t let go. I dropped _root./_level0./_parent. and/ or sliderContainerMC. from the path names and the text on the captions will show up and work proper, but the graphic behind the text doesn’t work.

I’ve posted in FlashKit, and a yahoo flashMX mail list with no help.

The main swf with the captions is @:

http://www.justinsteiger.com/flash/sliderOpenBeta.fla
You can view the semi working version of it all at my web site:
http://www.justinsteiger.com

I’ve tried putting _root back on like the tut has, and even _level0 _level1, _parent and the name of the MC the swf loads into sliderContainerMC. Every one of them makes the menu swf attatch to the mouse.

Help?!
:hangover:

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Should work now

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That works as advertised, thanks so much … Did all you do is assign it _parent or had I messed something else up? I haven’t looked at it really close yet (Only had a knapp in the last 24 hours).

Much appriciated though, Kudos out to Claudio and Kirupa! …

Cheers,
Justin:crazy:

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Yes i only changed _root for _parent.
Using _root can be painfull when you want to load the movie dinamically into another movie. Maybe you want to read this:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/root_parent_this.asp

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Gotchya … I thought I tried to impliment _parent, but I think maybe I didn’t add it in the correct locations.

Thanks a TON though, that little problem was just killing me …

Cheers and thanks much,
Justin

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Anytime
=)