How to make captions disappear?

Question

I have a Flash website that consists of 6 different Scenes. The Home scene and the Videos scene each have a FLV player that I dragged from the library and I called it "vid". So I'm basically using the same player for both scenes. I'm also using the caption component and am assigning the xml via actionscript when the user clicks on a link, so it reloads the player with the correct video and the correct captions. The problem I'm having is that say they are watching the video on the Home scene with captions. If they click on the Contact Us scene, the video player disappears, but the captions stay on the screen by themselves. Looks really odd. I need a way to turn off the captions (called the component "myCaps") so they disappear both when changing scenes and changing movies. On the Videos scene, if you click a different movie's link, the old captions form the last movie stay on screen and just move up a line and the new movie's captions appear below that one. So, how do I get rid of the captions when I don't want them? For each movie link I have:

myCaps.visible = false;

myCaps.source = "soc119_cc.xml";

myCaps.visible = true;

but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

kglad · Accepted Answer

Here is where you can download my test file. http://www.personal.psu.edu/pzb4/captions.zip

I added a button for each property. One uses showCaptions and one uses visible.

that's unexpected behavior. fortunately, that showCaptions property works.

kglad · Answer

use different instance names in your different scenes. you can then use the visible property applied to the two different instances.

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