Referencing Parent MovieClip for WebGL Animations

Question

This is eating me alive! I've tried possibly a hundred variations, and sifted through dozens of forums looking for answers, but to no avail.

I have a movieclip sitting on a timeline and I'm trying to reference that timeline. Basically, I'm trying to go to specific frame on the parent timeline, but I'm trying to call that action from the child movieclip.

In AS3, there's a few ways to do this, but nothing works when exported as WebGL. Something like

MovieClip(this.parent).stop(2);

does not work when exported as WebGL.

Any solutions to this? Is this a bug?

UDESCO · Accepted Answer

The main timeline can be referenced in Webgl as follows:

var stage = player.getStage();

Any child movieclip can be referenced as follows:

var stage = player.getStage();

var child = stage.getChildAt( index ); or, stage.getChildByName( instance-name );

or simply,

this.getChildAt( index );

Parent of a child can be referenced as:

var parent = this.getParent();

and, control its timeline as:

parent.gotoAndStop(2);

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