Button in movieclip to main timeline

I have a button(A) that opens a movie clip which contains a
button (B). I want button B to go to and play a frame on the main
timeline, NOT a frame in the movieclip. Is this possible?
If not, what I am aiming for is a menu of buttons, that are
rollovers from which another menu pops up with buttons you can
click.
Help!
Thanks

Hi, Sorry I am new to ActionScript.
This is what I wrote:
this.menu_orange1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickListener2);
function clickListener2(event:MouseEvent):void {
_root.gotoAndPlay("test");
and the error message says:
1120: Access of undefined property _root.

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Thanks kglad! Works like a charm. :-)
I had already named the instance of the movieclip and button so I just needed to change the code to match and it's working great.
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Hi,
This code is currently contained within my "mc_1" movieclip. I want to be able to have this code on my main timeline, however no matter what I try I constantly get errors, multiple different versions. I've tried adding mc_1 infront of everything, but that just gives an output error about a Sprite.
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import flash.events.MouseEvent;
stop();
mc_textbox.visible = false;
for(var i:uint=1; i<8; i++){
    this["line"+String(i)].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, line_in, false, 0, true);
    this["line"+String(i)].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, line_out, false, 0, true);
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    switch(lineTarget) // Each case should swap the lineTarget
        case line1: // line 1 is the first button
        line_output.text = "1"; // This text should display
        mc_textbox.visible = true; // The textbox should display
        break; // If this is not the case, break and check next
        case line2:
        line_output.text = "2";
        mc_textbox.visible = true;
        break;
        case line3:
        line_output.text = "3";
        mc_textbox.visible = true;
        break;
        case line4:
        line_output.text = "4";
        mc_textbox.visible = true;
        break;
/* This case has much more text than the rest, as such the textbox is enlarged for this case only
and changed in position. The line_output dynamic text field is also moved on the Y axis for this.
This is reset to default using the line_out function.
        case line5:
        line_output.text = "55";
        line_output.y = 427.65;
        mc_textbox.visible = true;
        mc_textbox.height = 100;
        mc_textbox.y = 417;
        break;
        case line6:
        line_output.text = "6";
        mc_textbox.visible = true;
        break;
        case line7:
        line_output.text = "7";
        mc_textbox.visible = true;
        break;
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        line_output.text = "";
        line_output.y = 474.65;
        mc_textbox.visible = false;
        mc_textbox.height = 61.95;
        mc_textbox.y = 454;

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What I'm trying to do:
addChild(mc_1.mc_textbox) to appear upon rollover of a button. On rolloff, for the child to be removed.
Add mc_textbox inside mc_1 on rollover, at a specific XY and height. On rolloff, for the child to be removed.
I have also been told that I should not have a dynamic textbox on the scene and should call that in using AS3 - If you have time, could you inform me how this would be done?
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ERROR:
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null.
    at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChild()
    at Main_new_fla::MainTimeline/line_in()
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null.
    at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
    at Main_new_fla::MainTimeline/line_out()
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stop();
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    this.mc_1["line"+String(i)].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, line_in, false, 0, true);
    this.mc_1["line"+String(i)].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, line_out, false, 0, true);
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        break; // If this is not the case, break and check next
        case mc_1.line2:
        mc_1.line_output.text = "2";
        addChild(mc_1.mc_textbox);
        break;
        case mc_1.line3:
        mc_1.line_output.text = "3";
        addChild(mc_1.mc_textbox);
        break;
        case mc_1.line4:
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        break;
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and changed in position. The line_output dynamic text field is also moved on the Y axis for this.
This is reset to default using the line_out function.
        case mc_1.line5:
        mc_1.line_output.text = "55";
        mc_1.line_output.y = 427.65;
        addChild(mc_1.mc_textbox);
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        mc_1.mc_textbox.y = 417;
        break;
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        addChild(mc_1.mc_textbox);
        break;
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        mc_1.line_output.text = "7";
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Loaded swf with button , not communicating to main timeline

my main stage/timeline has a UILoader "UILoaderOne" and
another one "UIloaderTwo".
i have some buttons on the main stage which pull up some
images into the UILoaderOne.
these work fine and look like this.
//BEGIN BUTTONCODE\\
//button to load image into loader "loaderOne" x01_btn and
x01_ldr, thumb image is "x01.jpg and main image is p01.jpg\\
//crop thumb image to size 50px tall by whatever wide and
resize loaderButton if needed, main image will resize
proportionatly\\
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function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
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import fl.controls.Label;
import fl.controls.ProgressBar;
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myUILoader.source = url;
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int(event.currentTarget.percentComplete) + "%");
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progressHandler);
myProgressBar.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
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removeChild(myProgressBar);
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//trace("typeMe");
//end BUTTONCODE\\
//end BUTTONCODE\\
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with the INTENT to load from buttons, images into the ULLoader
"UILoaderOne" which is on the main timeline.
this part is failing
the error i get in Output window is
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of
a null object reference.
at sOne_fla::MainTimeline/onClickz()
the swf that loads is sOne.swf
and it has code of this
z01_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickz);
function onClickz(event:MouseEvent):void
import fl.containers.UILoader;
import fl.controls.Label;
import fl.controls.ProgressBar;
var url:String = "assets/xx.jpg";
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myUILoader.unload();
myUILoader.autoLoad = false;
myUILoader.source = url;
//myUILoader.move(10, 10);
myUILoader.scaleContent = true;
myUILoader.load();
var myProgressBar:ProgressBar = new ProgressBar();
myProgressBar.source = myUILoader;
myProgressBar.setSize(100, 10);
myProgressBar.move(myUILoader.x+340, myUILoader.y+250)
myProgressBar.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
progressHandler);
myProgressBar.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
completeHandler);
addChild(myProgressBar)
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myLabel.text = ". . . . . X . . . . . ";
myLabel.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
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myProgressBar.height);
addChild(myLabel);
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//trace("progress:", event.bytesLoaded, event.bytesTotal,
int(event.currentTarget.percentComplete) + "%");
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event.bytesTotal + " bytes loaded.";
myLabel.text = ("progress:", event.bytesLoaded,
event.bytesTotal, int(event.currentTarget.percentComplete) + "%")
//myLabel.text =
Math.round((event.bytesLoaded/event.bytesTotal)*100) +"%";
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trace("complete:");
myProgressBar.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
progressHandler);
myProgressBar.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
completeHandler);
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removeChild(myLabel);
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//trace("typeMe");
//end BUTTONCODE\\
//end BUTTONCODE\\

well, I'm such a novice to begin with.
the loader is actually placed on stage manually, and instance
named manually so a lot of that code is may not be needed,
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it is all personal stuff
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I have a stop on my main timeline. At the stop I have a movieclip play. In the movieclip I will have a video play. After the video plays I have a button for the user to continue play until the end of the movieclip. Once the movieclip is done I want to resume back to a specific frame in my main timeline.
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Thanks for the reply and the help.
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x_btn in movieclip (not on main timeline) -
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I have some submenu buttons in a movieclip on the mainline. My first level of navigation in on main timeline. The submenus are grouped in movieclips on the main timeline. I basically used the same code on the main navigation for the sub navigation except the code for the submenus is in that movie clip. My trace statement reads the button is clicked (which was a quantum leap for me) but I know I need some kind of _parent code in there so it knows to go to label back on main timeline. Can anyone help?? I feel like I am so close.
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Here is link:
http://www.sandraschmitt.com/coclico/index2.html
Thanks!!
Sandra
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spring.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
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I am trying to do a simple thing in theory. In my main timeline I have a series of images with frame labels for each. In a movieclip (with its own labels & script) below the images, I have two panels of butttons that flop back and forth (to save space). The idea is to simply have the main timeline play the frame specified by the corresponding button in the movieclip. I tried the parent.child thing but either im doing it wrong or that isnt the solution. If anyone can help me I will be saved from certain death. If you think any other part of my project may be to blame, Ill be happy to provide anything that can help. Thanks in advance.
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ActionScript Code:
function on1click(evt:MouseEvent):void {
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TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
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- is not in the display list
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- does not exist in the frame where that code is trying to talk to it
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- is one of two or more consecutive keyframes of the same objects with no name assigned in the preceding frame(s).
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Each section has a movieclip
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invest.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
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I added an event listener to the blog button by saying,
blog.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,gotoblog);
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gotoAndStop(2)
this part of the code works it goes to the 2nd frame of the timeline it is in and stops wich is a blown up version of the origanal symbol
i added on frame 2 a second command
blog.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK.gotoblogpage);
function gotoblogpage(evtobj:MouseEvent){
gotoAndStop("blogframe")
trace("the blog button was clicked")
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mcassessJohn.gotoAndPlay("johnFeedback");
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Attempt to move main timeline from inside a movie clip breaks menu buttons.

I am attempting to have the main timeline move from a stopped position over a movie clip to frame 1, where my start menu is.
The code I'm using does move the timeline but in doing so it somehow breaks the 4 buttons I have in frame 1.
My code in the movie clip:
stop()
function replayMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieClip(parent).gotoAndStop(1);
Menu.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, replayMovie);
My code in frame 1 of the main timeline:
stop();
function bo(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndPlay(21)
SoundMixer.stopAll()
espesp.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bo);
function ho(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndPlay(31)
SoundMixer.stopAll()
espeng.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ho);
function yo(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndPlay(41)
SoundMixer.stopAll()
engesp.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, yo);
function go(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndPlay(51)
SoundMixer.stopAll()
engeng.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, go);
The error output when I use my Menu button at the end of the movie clip.
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at SSubjunctiveProjNewgrounds_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
at flash.display::MovieClip/gotoAndStop()
at SSubjunctiveProjNewgrounds_fla::Esp_5/replayMovie()
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For the sake of space, I'll leave out all the package declarations and class declarations and just talk about the functions.
First, the Game class, it has two functions. The first one is the constructor function and it launches at the beginning of the game: First the Game function:
public function Game():void
//Game code goes here
}//Game
We want to listen for someone to click the mouse on the MenuPage, so lets create a new MenuPage and add a listener to the button contiained within it.
public function Game():void
menuPage = new MenuPage;
menuPage.startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startGame);
addChild(menuPage);
}//Game
You will notice that before I declared a variable var menuPage:MenuPage, but that's all I did was declare it. I didn't really make a new instance of it, I just set aside space for it. In the first line within the Game function, I'm actually turning that variable into a new instance of a MenuPage.
We don't have a picture of this imaginary menuPage instance, but lets' assume that in our MenuPage MovieClip in the library, we created a SimpleButton called startButton. Here, I'm adding an EventListener that patiently waits for someone to click that button. Once we receive that event, Flash is told to call the startGame function.
As you get better at this, you'll get into custom events, and the eventListener for the button will exist in the MenuPage class file, or even in another class file that you create just for the button. Something like StartButton.as But for now, we can do it as above.
Now the startGame function:
public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
//Remove the start Page
//Add the zombie
//Add the gun
}//startGame
And we'll replace those comments with real code. It follows along with what we just did above.
public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
zombie = new Zombie;
addChild(zombie);
gun = new Gun;
addChild(gun);
And we also want to clean up some by removing the menuPage, and throwing out the eventListener.
public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
zombie = new Zombie;
addChild(zombie);
gun = new Gun;
addChild(gun);
menuPage.startButton.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.Click,startGame);
removeChild(menuPage);
}//startGame
Now our Game class is complete.
The Zombie Class
public function zombieWalk(evt:Event):void
this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,zombieWalk);
this.x = this.x + 10;
}//zombieWalk
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The first function adds an EventListener to the zombie. We can use the word this and actionScript knows we're talking about the zombie that the class is written for. This listener fires off every frame. If our FLA file is set to 12fps, then 12 times every second it will call on the zombieWalk function.
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And finally, the Gun class
public function Gun():void
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fireGun);
}//function
public function fireGun(evt:MouseEvent):void
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}//fireGun
First we add an EventListener for when someone clicks on the gun. Once this happens, the listener calls on the fireGun function.
The fireGun function takes advantage of the frames within the Gun MovieClip. Say we have three frames in the Gun MovieClip. The first is just a picture of the gun. The second is the gun with a flash coming out of the nozzle. And the third is the gun at rest again. The line this.gotoAndPlay(2) sends the gun to the second frame with the flash graphic.
For this to work, each frame in the Gun MovieClip has to have some stop and play commands.
But.. you said no code on our timeline!! Liar!
I know. This is the exception. You will need basic stop() commands and gotoAndPlay commands to loop animations. Any MovieClip that has more than one frame will need something to control it.
So our Gun MovieCLip has the following:
Frame 1: stop();
Frame 2: no actionScript... and I mean nothing, not even the words, "no actionScript"
Frame 3: gotoAndStop(1);
This will loop the gun to the beginning and wait for the next time the user clicks the gun.
Advanced features of the Gun class might include a Bullet.as sub-class that creates a bullet MovieClip to fly across the screen. Sound to play when the shooting takes place. Object collision detection to see if the bullet hits the target. And a means by which a custom event will tell the Game.as class that a zombie has been hit and it should be removed from the stage.
As you go down the rabbit hole of ActionScript 3, you will find yourself at a point where it's just a matter of getting the syntax right for all the built in functions and classes. Arrays, Loaders, casting variable types.. all that stuff will come.
I hope this has been helfpul. It's been on my to-do list for a long time. When I first started out, no one could provide me with basic answers for how all these classes and whatnot worked. After teaching myself AS3 for 2 years and reading a gabillion books, I think I've gotten to a point where I'm pretty comfortable with it all.

Button Refer to Main Timeline

Okay so I am unfortunatly new to AS3, so I apologize if there
is a very obvious answer to this question.
Okay Say I have a movie Clip on my main timeline and with in
that movie clip is a button. That button has a CLICK event that I
want o go back and refer to a "frame" on the main time line. How
would I go about doing that?
Here is what I thought I should do
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
WebSitesBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,WebDesignBtnClick);
function WebDesignBtnClick(event:MouseEvent):void{
_parent:gotoAndStop("Web Design");
"Web Design" is the Frame Label which I want to refer too
Any ideas on what I am missing or how I can properly refer to
the main time line?
Thanks

use parent, instead of _parent, if that code is in your
movieclip.

How to _root in as3 (buttons in movie clip referencing to main timeline)

Hi, I created buttons within a movie clip that i placed in the main timeline.I am a novice to as3. I just wanted the button to go to the frame label of the main timeline. i used to do this with _root in the old flash. how do i do this?
thumb02_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);
function buttonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
gotoAndPlay("slide2");

Thanks for the quick reply!
somehow i must be doing something wrong though. It's not working...
I added a stop to the "slide02" labeled section of the main timeline.
and I also added a stop to the beginning and end of the movieclip. Am I doing something wrong? attached is my file....thanks!!
stop();
thumb02_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);
function buttonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieClip(this.root).gotoAndPlay("slide2");
stop();

Button not in main timeline

Hello All,
I am fairly new to flash and would greatly appreciate some
help with this... I have many buttons that I need to attach event
handlers to but they are embedded within layers of movie clips, and
if I write the handler code in the main timeline's 1st frame they
are nowhere to be found because they are no yet displayed. If I
write the handler code in the movie clip that a button is contained
in, and my action is to gotoAndPlay a frame of a different movie
clip, that movie clip also not be found. My guess is that I need to
write the code within the movie clip that the button is contained
in and somehow call up the mainstage and then reference the movie
clip that is to be played by the buttonClick event through its
respective path... something like (in words):
"look to stage" then...
function buttonClick(speakevent:MouseEvent):void {
portal_mc.logomov_mc.gotoAndPlay(63)
speak_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);
can anybody tell me how to point back to the stage? or some
other way of doing this? surely it is possible. any comments would
be much appreciated.
thanks, sander.

kglad wrote:
i'm assuming your buttons are movieclip buttons. if "nextlevelbutton" is not the linkage id of a movieclip, your code makes no sense. if it is a movieclip over and down states wouldn't work unless you had code elsewhere.
scoresign.attachMovie("nextlevelbutton", "nextlevelbutton", scoresign.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:126, _y:300});
scoresign.attachMovie("mainmenubutton", "mainmenubutton", scoresign.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:35, _y:300});
scoresign.nextlevelbutton.onRelease=function(){gotoAndStop("first scene");
scoresign.mainmenubutton.onRelease=function(){
// do whatever

Problem with nested button controlling main timeline...

I am new with as3, i like it, but I am suffering
After I looked on google for trying to figure out my problem I attempt to post here...
to make it simple, I have a loader that is loading some swf(a scrolling content), with some content, in those swf I am trying to put a "close" button and some other like next/prev. But no way... normally I thought that the MovieClip(root) would make it but it's seems not to be enough.
code of the swf:
var btnclose1:btnclose = new btnclose();
this.addChild(btnclose1);
btnclose1.x = 770
btnclose1.y = 55;
btnclose.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closearchi)
function closearchi (e:MouseEvent):void {
MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(1);
Thanks by advance...

Hi Ned,
Actually, I just saw than the problem come from the timeline itself, but I don't see what to do...
on the frame 1 of the main timeline, it is loading an empty swf into my container"box":
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var myURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("empty.swf");
myLoader.load(myURL);
box.addChild(myLoader);
on frame 2 I have the first content and so on:
function loadarchi():void
var myURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("archi.swf");
myLoader.load(myURL);
loadarchi();
I did a simple button on the main just for testing purpose, telling him to go to frame 1, it doesn't unlod the content ! there is the problem!
what is wrong with that? it shoul load the empty swf instead of archi...
thanks again

Button in movieclip to main timeline

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