Movieclip actionscript to move to main movie

[nutbolt]

Hi

I've got a simple problem (I think). Been looking for a while but having trouble working it out.

I got a movieclip with a simple linear animation in it. All I want is when the head reaches the end of the clip it then goes to frame 3 in the main movie...

Thats it...

Can anyone help??

[Sgaspar11]

In the actionscript of the smaller movie clip, when you say gotoStop(3); it would just go to frame 3 of the small movie clip.

To fix this you would want it to go to ._parent or maybe ._root (if it is the highest level) then frame 3.

Hope this helps.

Scott

[nutbolt]

How do you mean Highest level. I'm pretty new to this.

[Sgaspar11]

When you put a movie clip inside another movieclip it adds "levels" to your flash.

Level 1 would be what you start with, then you create a movie clip and open that up, that'd be level 2. (to keep in simple) Then if you added a movie clip inside another movieclip and opened that one, it'd be in the third level down.

If you want a button within a movieclip(which has it's own seperate timeline) to affect the main timeline. Use the same actionscript to send it to a certain frame, but just add _root to the beginning of the _root.gotoAndPlay(3) or whatever to make it affect the main timeline not the movie clip timeline.