Button nested inside MC

First of all, sorry to ask this question again, for it's bound to have been answered several times, but unfortunetly the Search function gave me a DBase error... :(

Anyhow... I have a Movieclip and inside is an invisible button. I want the movie to jump to frame 30 on the main timeline (or to "Enter" which is the framelabel at frame 30)

So I attached this code to my invisible button.

Code:

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on (release){
        _root.gotoAndPlay(30);
}

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however, this doesn't seem to work, when clicked, the movie jumps to where the button was introduced to the timeline (frame 13 instead of frame 30)

Thx in advance

try using the frame label instead of frame number, its fairly simple, should work like a charm, if the problem presist, upload the file on this thread so some one can check..or email it to me [email protected]

you dont want to use _root.
you want to use _parent. instead so on(release) the button in your MC will gotoAndPlay("enter") on the main timeline.

the code for the button should look like this:

Code:

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on(release){
_parent.gotoAndPlay(30);
}

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if that doesnt work tell me

_parent did the trick, thx :) I always thought _root and _parent were the same?


try using the frame label instead of frame number, its fairly simple, should work like a charm, if the problem presist, upload the file on this thread so some one can check.. => I had already done that

Thx for helping me out peepz

just so you know:
_root is used to affect a MC from your main timeline
_parent is used to affect the main timeline from a MC
Note: Thats just generally there are other uses also.