Need help real quick

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Hi

I have created a parent a child movie, the child movie is loaded into the parent. The child movie has a menu where by the buttons fade in and out upon interaction. This fade effect works when I play the child movie by itself but when I the child movie is loaded into the parent movie the effect no longer works! Can anyone help me?

Much appreciated.

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Your targeting is wrong.

_root is the first timeline in the hierarchy, when you load a child movie into a parent movie, _root targets the first timeline in the parent movie.

You would need to change _root to _parent on the buttons.

Targeting is VERY important in Flash, it is definitely something you need to know, especially when working with loadMovie() where timeline set-ups are going to be changing.

Here is a tutorial on what _root, _parent and this are…
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/root_parent_this.asp

And here is a tutorial on Relative Addressing…
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/relativeaddressing.asp

Those should get you started.

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thanks very much.