How can I control the root timeline from within a movie clip with HTML5?

[mentalcase129]

Can anybody guide me on how to control the main root timeline from within a movieclip with HMTL5?  I remember doing this years ago with actionscript and I think all I needed to do was add ".root" somewhere and it worked but I'm not sure how to go about it now with HMTL5.

Here's my specific scenario.  I have a movieclip on my root timeline.  That movieclip has a bunch of frames inside of it that you can flip through by clicking a next button which is also inside that movieclip.  When you get to the final frame of the movieclip I want that next button to now take the use to a different point of the main root timeline.

I imagine the code would not be that different from basic timeline navigation but with some addition to specify which timeline I'm referring to but I dunno.

What do you guys think?

Thanks in advance.

[JoãoCésar · Accepted solution]

Hi.

Animate automatically creates a global variable that refers to the root Movie Clip (main timeline) called exportRoot.

So, for example, you can write...

exportRoot.gotoAndStop(1);

... to send the root Movie Clip to the second frame.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

JC

[mentalcase129]

Oh great!  I bet that will work!  I'll give it a try.  Sorry or the slow response, I never got any notifications of the replies so I didnt' think I'd gotten any answers at first./

Thanks!!!

[JoãoCésar]

No worries and you're welcome!

[Andre32352697b9pi]

Thanks so much mate - I love ya x

[JoãoCésar]

Or you can also store a reference yourself in the main timeline like this:

window.root = this;

Or just:

root = this;

In this way, you are creating a property in the window object that stores a reference to the root Movie Clip (main timeline) called root, that you can access from anywhere in the same window.

Regards,

JC