Manipulating the Childs timeline (external SWF) from the Parent

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I have been racking my brain for hours trying to get this to work! If someone out there can give me a hand I would REALLY appreciate it.

Essentially, i have loaded an external SWF (area-home.swf) w/in a MC (mc_loader) of the main SWF (base.swf). This is simple, not a problem, works like a charm. What I want to do from here is have the main SWF (base.swf) tell the external SWF (area-home.swf) to gotoAndStop at a certain frame (42). Below is the code that I have, and can’t quite figure out why it won’t work:

var loader1:Loader=new Loader();
loader1.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, myFunction);

loader1.load(new URLRequest("area-home.swf"));

function myFunction(event:Event):void{
    addChild(loader1);
    MovieClip(loader1.content).gotoAndStop(42);
    trace(MovieClip(loader1.content).totalFrames);
}

When i trace the total frames, it does bring back the actual frame count from area-home.swf, so I know that it is communicating. It simply does not stop on the 42nd frame (even have a stop(); command on that frame in area-home.swf’s timeline)

I might just be making a very simple mistake, I just can’t see it.

I’ll owe a beer to anyone who helps me! Of course you’ll have to come to Chicago to get it :wink:

Thanks,

Greg.