Stop child movieclip playing

[illustrate_this]

Hello,

Very simple question with a tricky answer I presume....

Basically I have a MC with two nested child MC's inside.

MainMC > SubMC > SubSubMC

When I play the MainMC timeline 'MainMC.play()' only its timeline will play.

When I play the second childs (SubSubMC) timeline 'MainMC.SubMC.SubSubMC.play()' this will only play SubSubMC timeline, perfect.

However when I try to play the first child (SubMC) 'MainMC.SubMC.play()' this will play its timeline AND the second childs timeline (SubSubMC).

How could I stop this from happening? I have thought about tracking the frame number of the first child then stopping this timeline when reaching the end but I cant seem to get this working. Perhaps there is an easier method?

Thanks for the help!

[Joseph Labrecque]

If they are two separate instances, each instance would require a play() command, if stopped. Are the two instance timelines stopped, initially? Because they will automatically play, otherwise.

[illustrate_this]

Yes all of these MC's are stopped. The last nested MC seems to play when I play the middle nested MC. I think this may be a bug....

[Joseph Labrecque]

Can you share the file, possibly?

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

Does the sub-subclip exist along the entire timeline of the subclip? If it doesn't, it will get reinitialized and start playing when the subclip loops.