_root location?

you're welcome.

Ahhh... i understand, but still... i don't see it. I'm looking at the main timeline. I know which movieclip gets played when the script in my first post is activated.. it's called 'contact 2'. However, I don't see anything anywhere called 'textp' connected to it... anywhere.

texttp is a movie clip and the "gotoAndPlay()" function is a built in
function.

Rich

"Jack.Straw" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:feg3pa$1d1$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi. I'm very new to flash and have been attempting to modify a friend of
> mine's site. When looking through the scripts i see calls to functions
> contained in "_root". I want to edit these functions but can't seem to
> find
> them. Here's an example:
>
> on (release)
> {
> _root.textp.gotoAndPlay(3);
> }
>
> Can anyone tell me where i would find the function 'textp' in the above
> example? I would guess it to be in a sort of top-level script, but I
> can't
> seem to find it...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Jack
>

_root is the main timeline in that level. textp is not a function, however: it's a movieclip.