Enable button in different .swf

[4romAshz2Flashz]

I have a button inside a movie clip and it needs to enable a button on a .swf file that is loaded. How do I properly target it? Thank you.

[jAQUAN]

A fully quailfied reference for a loaded movie always includes the name of the instance you loaded it into.
So if you had a target called mySwfHolder and you wanted to load a movie called loadedSwf.swf and inside loadedSwf.swf was a button with the instance name myButton:
//to load the movie
mySwfHolder.loadMovie('loadedSwf.swf');
//to talk to the button
mySwfHolder.myButton.onRelease = function(){
...
}

[4romAshz2Flashz]

A fully quailfied reference for a loaded movie always includes the name of the instance you loaded it into.
So if you had a target called mySwfHolder and you wanted to load a movie called loadedSwf.swf and inside loadedSwf.swf was a button with the instance name myButton:
//to load the movie
mySwfHolder.loadMovie('loadedSwf.swf');
//to talk to the button
mySwfHolder.myButton.onRelease = function(){
...
}

This is what I have...and it doesn't seem to work:

_parent.mc_container.video.enabled = true;

[jAQUAN]

Just before that line of code, add this line:
trace(_parent);

That way you can test to see if _parent is actually referring to what you want. If it isnt you may need to say this._parent or even _parent._parent

What are you trying to acheive by toggling enabled?

[4romAshz2Flashz]

How do you output the trace to find out the value? In my output window it says level0, does this have anything to do with that? I tried both this._parent and _parent._parent and neither worked.

I have a movie clip that appears over a menu, this movie clip contains new buttons. I have to disable the menu buttons so that there not accidentally clicked.

[jAQUAN]

level0 is the same as _root.

If mc_container is on the main timeline, it should work. All mc's are enabled by default so unless you are changing enabled to false somewhere else there's no need.

[4romAshz2Flashz]

I tried using _root. and that didn't work either. I remember being told on this forum to refrain from using _root, and to only use _parent and this.

mc_container is on the main timeline. I'm attempting to control the button (enabled) in another movie clip that is on the main timeline.