targetting movie clips

[Jayboy75]

Below are the target paths for my project:

_root
---------charger

---------bigbox
----------------------spin


I want to access the movie clip "spin" from within the movie clip "charger." In the last frame of the "charger" movie clip, I have the following line of actionscript:

_root.bigbox.spin.gotoAndStop(8);

The above actionscript does not work. When I move the "spin" movie clip up one level and put it on the main timeline, I am able to access it with:

_root.spin.gotoAndStop(8);

Why wouldn't it work one level further down?

[pellepiano]

Why would you include _root into the path.....

_root.bigbox.spin.gotoAndStop(8);

.......the bigbox mc is not located in the _root.

You just have to write........

bigbox.spin.gotoAndStop(8);.


....or........

_root.charger.bigbox.spin.gotoAndStop(8);

[Jayboy75]

yes, "bigbox" and "charger" are both located in the root, and "spin" is located inside "bigbox." So in other words, I need to get back out of "charger" and into "bigbox" to access the "spin" movie clip.

[oldnewbie]

Then _root.bigbox.spin.gotoAndStop(8); should work, assuming those are the instance names of the clips on stage and not just their Library names...