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Cuwen
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May 21, 2013
Question

Access button inside of movieclip?

I'm sure this has been asked and answered plenty of times, but I've been searching off and on for days and haven't found a solution that works.

I have a movieclip that loads inside of a scrollpane when the flash document is published.  Inside of that movieclip are buttons that I want to control the main timeline.  Here is the code that I am using for this:

PipeStr_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopFromFrame);

function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopFromFrame(event:MouseEvent):void

{

    myContent(root).gotoAndStop("PiperStretcher");

}

However, when I go to test everything, I get this error:

"

Scene 1, Layer 'Actions', Frame 1, Line 171120: Access of undefined property PipeStr_btn.

So I'm not sure how to proceed.  I thought about adding the code to the movieclip itself in an actionscript layer, but that's what you would do in AS2.  I like how in AS3, you just have the one layer of actions that control everything.  However, if I need to add AS inside my movieclip, I will.  I'm just not sure what is going on here.  I've been trying different things for days and nothing is working.

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kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 21, 2013

myContent(root) makes no sense.

if you're trying to direct the main timeline, use:

MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(...

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    CuwenAuthor
    Known Participant
    May 21, 2013

    Thank you.  And 'my Content' is my movieclip's instance name.  I'm sorry, I should have said that.  I had found a previous post you had made awhile ago and was trying that, but it wasn't working.  But I had just mistyped something when I was trying to type out your code.  So I just copied and pasted, filled in my button's names and movie clip name, and everything worked great.  I should just stick to copying and pasting new code.  Here's what worked:

    myContent(scrollPane.content).RetClip_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_7);

    function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_7(event:MouseEvent):void

    {

         gotoAndStop(7);

    }

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