[RESOLVED] [fCS3] How do i break out of a movie clip?

Ok, this is confusing.

I have made a button inside a movieclip. I have a applied actionscript to the button. The actionscript has an IF statement which, when true, should take me to a frame on the main timline that i have labeled "window". however, this doesn't work.

basically how can i get a button in a movieclip to take me to somewhere on the main timline?

change gotoAndPlay("window");
to
_parent.gotoAndPlay("window");

if you had a movieclip inside of a movieclip and you wanted to access the main timeline you would put
_parent._parent.gotoAndPlay("window");

good luck!

Or since you know it is on the main timeline, use _root.gotoAndPlay("window")

i prefer to steer clear of _root, imo it's problematic and typically unnecessary (for example if you had a game made in flash that uses root, then you loaded that game into another swf with a menu of a bunch of games, the game wouldn't' work because it would look to the root of the menu swf instead of the game swf.. you can use _lockroot to get around that, but at that point it's a hack)

Thank you so much! I don't know what i'd do without you guys!