Accessing buttons in external swf from main timeline

[lucifersamfish]

Hello,

I am loading external swfs into a main swf. So I have main.swf which loads menu.swf, along with ssp_home.swf and home.swf.

These all load at the beginning.

I also have two other swfs - transition.swf and writing.swf - and when you click on the writing button in the menu.swf I want to load the transition, followed by the writing.swf into the main timeline.

I am really struggling - how to you tell a button in menu.swf to do load something into main.swf from main.swf?

Thanks and best wishes,

[sybershot]

menue.writing_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLIC K,myFunction);

function myFunction(evt:MouseEvent):void{
addChild(swiftName);

}

[lucifersamfish]

Hello,

Many thanks for your reply.

I tried accessing it using the dot syntax as you suggested but it throws an error:

1120: Access of undefined property test1.

I've taken it all into a new swf called test.swf, which is loaded another swf called test1.swf with a button inside with the instance name writing.

Here's the code:

//loading the swf

var menu:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("test1.swf");
var menuLoader: Loader = new Loader();

menuLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Prog ressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);
menuLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Even t.COMPLETE, loadComplete);

function loadProgress(event:ProgressEvent):void
{
var percentLoaded:Number = event.bytesLoaded/event.bytesTotal;
percentLoaded = Math.round(percentLoaded * 100);
trace("Loading: "+percentLoaded+"%");
}

function loadComplete(event:Event):void {
trace("Complete");
}

menuLoader.load(menu);
addChild(menuLoader);


//access writing button

test1.writing.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, writingClick);

function writingClick(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("the button is working")
}

Any help would be much appreciated.

best

[sybershot]

var menu:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("menue.swf");
var menuLoader:Loader = new Loader();
addChild(menuLoader);
function loadComplete(e:Event):void {
e.target.content.writing.addEventListener(MouseEve nt.CLICK, writingClick);}
menuLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Even t.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
menuLoader.load(menu);
function writingClick(evt:MouseEvent):void{
trace("the button is working")}