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hello Flashers. I have a simple problem that I’ve been working on for hours, trying to go through trial and error myself. But here’s the problem.

I have a function on the main timeline named startClips.

Now, I want to call this from from within two movie clips, the other nested inside the other. In other words, I have a movie clip called holder, and inside of a holder, I have a movieclip called homebase.

Now, here is all the code I’ve been trying to use to access the startClips function which is own the main timeline from the movieclip homebase:

MovieClip(root).startClips();

MovieClip(root.root).startClips();

MovieClip(parent.parent).startClips();

this.parent.parent.startClips();

I can’t figure this one out. Can I get any assistance. Thanks for reading…