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Grandtone
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February 9, 2008
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Access Movie Clips from inside another Movie Clip

  • February 9, 2008
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Hi!

I have some objects (movie clips) on my stage on different layers, but all in the first frame of a layer. And now I want to access this movie clips from inside another movie clip, which is also on the stage like the others.
So my question is: How can I access this movieclips so that I can do for example <movieclip_outside>.gotoandplay("in"); or something like this.

Greets, Tschouba
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Correct answer kglad
if intro is on the main timeline, you can reference it from anywhere by using:

MovieClip(root).intro.gotoAndPlay("in");

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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February 10, 2008
you're welcome.
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GrandtoneAuthor
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February 10, 2008
Yes, that worked fine! :)
Thanks kglad!
kglad
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kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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February 10, 2008
if intro is on the main timeline, you can reference it from anywhere by using:

MovieClip(root).intro.gotoAndPlay("in");
kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2008
use the correct path and name. you may need to cast the object as a movieclip, if the compiler complains.
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GrandtoneAuthor
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February 10, 2008
What do you mean with correct path? The instances of the movieclips on the stage have all names (for example "intro") and when I try to call inside another movieclip on the stage "intro.gotoAndPlay("in")" the compiler says "access of undefined property intro". Do I have to import something? Or how can I access the stage, I thought about like "stage.intro.gotoAndPlay("in"), but this didn't worked...
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