Calling frames inside another MC

[indiochano]

Hi, i've got a problem... I have a few buttons inside this movie clip named "container"... however, I want the buttons inside that MC to load a specific frame in another MC. So for instance, I click on a button that's in the "container" MC, and once I release the mouse button, a car appears passing by the screen. then when i click another button in that container mc, the car unloads and a truck appears passing by the screen, and so on...

Thanks :P

[taldos]

You need a little actionscript to do what you seek.

If you button is on the main time line you can simply but this into the code

on(release)
{
myMC.gotoAndPlay(desiredFrame);
}

However if your button is inside another movie clip you would simply change

myMC.gotoAndPlay(desiredFrame); to

_root.myMC.gotoAndPlay(desiredFrame)

myMC would be the instance name of the MC you wish to control

[indiochano]

Thanks for the prompt response
its a little complicated... the "container" mc is located inside another mc that's named "news" and that "news mc" is located in the main timeline... so what I got from you would be:

on(release)
{
_root.news.container.gotoAndPlay(desiredFrame)

[indiochano]

I tried the code but had no luck...

Here's what im trying to do...

I've got an mc called "news" on my main timeline... then i've got an mc called "container" inside that news timeline. the buttons are located in:

root/news/container/content

what i'm trying to do is once i press on a button in that "content" mc, that will make a certain frame to load up in another movie located at:

root/news/container/hexport

now... i tried using the following code:

on(release)
{
_root.News.container.hexport.gotoAndPlay(2)
}

thanks!

[taldos]

From the position of each of these MC, acording to what you described you would only need to put in the "concent" MC

_parent.hexport.gotoAndPlay(2);

Since both hexport and content are both in the container MC you don't need to go any higher than that.

[indiochano]

hmmm... apparently it doesnt work... it just doesn't load up the frame.

I tried the following code on the button inside the "container" mc:

on(release)
{
_parent.hexport.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

nothing happened..
here's the tricky part though, i want a frame inside an mc to load in that same mc by clicking on a button located outside that mc. this is confusing me so much :P

[taldos]

can you post your fla?

[indiochano]

the problem is that everything is already set up and im tweaking the site. if i post the fla file, all of my work will be exposed for free download

what i could do though is post a .swf file to what ive come up with...

[sharedobject]

You could mail it to him or me, zipped up and in a MX only not MX2004.
I PM you an address if you want.