Controlling Timeline within a Sprite?

Hi there,

I'm having difficulty controlling the timeline within a move clip.

i want to reuse the movieclip / sprite elsewhere - so im trying to avoid referencing the clip like this (which does work as intended):

Code:

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on (keyPress("u")) {
    stopAllSounds();
    _root.questions.q1.cover_a._visible = 0;
    _root.questions.q1.cover_b._visible = 0;
    _root.questions.q1.cover_c._visible = 0;
    _root.questions.q1.cover_d._visible = 0;
    _root.questions.q1.gotoAndStop("unselected");
}

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This doesn't work either :(


I have tried this:

Code:

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on (keyPress("u")) {
  stopAllSounds();
  this.cover_a._visible = 0;
  this.cover_b._visible = 0;
  this.cover_c._visible = 0;
  this.cover_d._visible = 0;
  this.gotoAndStop("unselected");
}

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That doesn't work :(


have tried this:

Code:

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on (keyPress("u")) {
    stopAllSounds();
    cover_a._visible = 0;
    cover_b._visible = 0;
    cover_c._visible = 0;
    cover_d._visible = 0;
    gotoAndStop("unselected");
}

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that doesn't work either :(

Apologies if this is an easy fix - not used flash / swish for years!

many thanks,
Neil