Action script in A movieclap within a movieclip

[blanius]

My question is: Does it work to write _root.main.bgcolor?

That looks fine. or _parent.main.bgcolor will refer to a clip called bgcolor in main in the root or parent timeline.

[this.Alex]

Heres the source file it works rember that flash is scase sensitive.

all ur code was right but that works in flash 8 you need to use no big caps in KM only if you need to because it wont work any other way just download the source file =).