Re: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from a button in a movieclip

[Mark Sheppard]

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ifxjps [dot] net

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> I must be tired... because I can't get this one to work....and it seems so

> simple. I have a button within a movie clip. When the user activates the

> button... I want to send the main timeline (not the movie clip timeline)

to

> a certain labeled frame. So I opened the movie clip, selected the button

and

> went to modify instance...did the mouse over event on release... then

select

> label but the pulldown isn't working...so I type in my label name. Test

the

> movie...nothing. I'm assuming I have the wrong path so I am unclear on

what

> the correct path "back" to the main timeline from a clip would be. Any

help

> would be awesome!


To go up one level use ../  or to target the main timeline you only need to

use a /


HTH

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Mark Sheppard

AKA Zachnefein

zach29columbus [dot] rr [dot] com

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