Button functionality in a movieclip within another movieclip for another movieclip

Ok so i have this looping thumbnails bar that goes like this:
Scene1-imagebar-imagebarinside
The buttons symbols are in the "imagebarinside" movieclip and i am using this code:
ss1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, play1);
function play1(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndStop("ssbox1");
...in this movieclip to play another labeled frame in another movieclip (Scene1-Bara)
Problem is it wont work :-< if anyone has a better ideea i'll really apreciate it

Hey!
So, trying to understand the distribution of your MovieClips inside the flash file, this is what I understand:
Scene1 contains a movieclip with the instance name "imagebar" and another movieclip with the instance name "bara".
"imagebar" contains a movieclip with the instance name "imagebarinside". If that is the case (And the code being on the first frame of "imagebarinside"), I would use something like:
function play1(event:MouseEvent):void
Object(this.parent).parent.bara.gotoAndStop("ssbox1");
Hope this works!

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tyvm!

OK I finally got it! My layers were indeed out of whack--the entire problem was solved by the"setChildIndex" function.
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> It seems that an event fired from within another event does not
> actually execute its code until the firing event completes. The fired
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> was told to execute, but using GetTickCount calls shows that its code
> does not execute until the firing event is finished. This happens
> whether Value Signaling is used to generate a Value Change event or if
> CreateUserEvent and GenerateUserEvent is used. Is this because events
> are placed in a queue ? This behavior is different from Delphi for
> example where the fired event executes right away when called from the
> firing event (before the firing event completes).
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Window
s OS has two ways of firing events, Send and Post. The LV events
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> I have an event that executes upon a button value change. I would
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Hi Mike,
Our test environment does not include proxy server.
regards,
syam.
Please respond to [email protected]
cc:
Subject: Re: [iPlanet-JATO] Back Button functionality
Guys,
Please clarify something for me, the JATO code is commented as follows
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Server, or does your browser
go directly to the Application Server's web server?
Can you clarify, please?
----- Original Message -----
From: <syam_reddy@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: [iPlanet-JATO] Back Button functionality
>
Hi,
We observed the following difference in behaviour between JATO pages
and NetD served pages.
We have the following scenario. User will login to the
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sections on the site.) .The middle frame(main frame) shows the actual
content. When the the frame set gets loaded main frame shows page1. User
will click on a link on page1. Page 2 will be loaded in main frame. Atthis
point if the user clicks on back button , with migrated application(JATO
pages) the following message appears in the main frame.
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frame :
Data Missing
This document resulted from a POST operation and has expired fromcache.If
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form.This page is no longer available.As a security precaution, Internet
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If we comment the above code , we were able to mimic theNetD
behaviour. Are there any alternatives/thoughts on how to mimic the NetD
behaviour ?
Thanks in Advance,
syam&ravi.
[email protected]
[email protected]

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