Button nested inside MC

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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.

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

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

[mustafapracha]

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]

[feigner]

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:

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

if that doesnt work tell me

[[SH]Doc]

_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

[feigner]

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.