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Anonymous
June 20, 2011
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pause movie clip from inside another movie clip

  • June 20, 2011
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Hi there,

Question: Can you pause a movie clip, let's say movie clip A,  from inside a seperate movie clip, let's say movie clip B.  B is not a parent of A.

Essentially, I have a background slideshow running that I want to stop when a menu item is clicked, and an external swf file is loaded.

I attached a jpg which diagrams how the movie clips are organized within each other and what I want to pause from within which movie clip:

If this is not feasible, I'd love if anyone could reccomend a better way to structure the movieclips.

Many thanks,

Rachel

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Correct answer kglad

from project1's scope, this.parent.parent is content so this.parent.parent.slideshow will give you the reference you want.

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kglad
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kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 20, 2011

from project1's scope, this.parent.parent is content so this.parent.parent.slideshow will give you the reference you want.

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Anonymous
June 20, 2011

Hi kglad:

Wow! Thanks for the speedy response.   So would this.parent.parent.slideshow.stop(); go as an event listener within the actions layer of the "menu" movieclip?

Could I do Under the actions layer of the "menu movieclip", with "proj_one" being the instance name for the project 1 movie clip:

proj_one.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopSlideshow1);

function stopSlideshow1 (event:MouseEvent):void{
    this.parent.parent.slideshow.stop();
}

?

Thanks!

Edited:  updated a more accurate jpg.

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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June 20, 2011

if project 1 is a child of projects and that code is on the projects timeline, that will work

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