Buttons within attached movie

I'm trying to do very simple, i'm attaching a map using
attachMovie, then I have two buttons one to print it and one to
close the movie. The code is contained within the timeline of the
attached movie not the root timeline.
attachMovie("mcmap", "map_mc", 200, {_x:100, _y:100});
close_btn.onRelease = function ()
{unloadMovie (map_mc)};
I hope I've set the linkage elements correctly and my movie
sits on the main stage and is not exported in the first frame.
Attaching the movie is fine, I just can't close or print the
map - I'm incorrectly targeting somehow but I just can't work out
why?
Can anyone help?

I worked it out - every post I make is because I still forget
about using paths properly - I know it's something to do with this,
but I always forget - sorry!
_parent.map_mc.unloadMovie ()};
was the correct choice!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hiya,
I have a movie clip within my swf website that is basically
an icon that you roll over to produce the menu. The movie clip has
coding inside it to produce the rollover effect. This is as
follows:
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
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rewind = false;
play();
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Whilst this coding works fine for this movie clip, for some
reason the buttons within the movie clip that appear as you
rollover them will not work when pressed. I am trying to get them
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on (release) {
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_parent should be correct, I've tried it without and with
_parent._parent however still it has no effect. From what I can see
everything should be working fine.
Is there some reason why buttons will not work within this
sort of roll over effect movie clip?
Thanks for your help.

you can't assign mouse handlers to a parent movieclip and
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Controlling the main time line of a movie via a button within a movie on a different level.

Hi there!
I have two movie is two different levels,
Level 5 is my base movie and I am loading another movie on
top of this into level 10.
Once the user clicks onto a button within the movie on level
10, I would like the animation in level 5 to stop (the animation
runs on the main root timeline of level 5).
Once the user clicks on a different button within the movie
on level 10, I would like the animation on the main timeline of the
movie in level 5 to start again from the point where it previously
left off.
Is this possible?
It would be great if someone could help me out with this.
Thanks, midi_ie

midi_ie wrote:
> Hi there!
> I have two movie is two different levels,
> Level 5 is my base movie and I am loading another movie
on top of this into
> level 10.
> Once the user clicks onto a button within the movie on
level 10, I would like
> the animation in level 5 to stop (the animation runs on
the main root timeline
> of level 5).
>
> Once the user clicks on a different button within the
movie on level 10, I
> would like the animation on the main timeline of the
movie in level 5 to start
> again from the point where it previously left off.
> Is this possible?
_level5.gotoAndPlay("someLabelframe");
Use your regular action to target timeline or movie clips,
just define the level number at the beginning of the path.
Pretty much it :)
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Problems coding a button within a movie clip to navigate scenes

Hello there! I've got another probably noobish question to ask about CS6.
My goal is very similar to the one mentioned in this previously discussed forum question: http://forums.adobe.com/message/837995#837995 and also in this question http://forums.adobe.com/message/4172919#4172919
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This seemed to be what was suggested to enter. I attempted to modify it to work for me as well. This is what I typed for the button's action.
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ArgumentError: Error #2108: Scene 2 was not found.
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I bet you're absolutely right. However I am not sure how I am misnaming it, as to my ametuer eyes, it seems to be entered properly into the properties box? It does show up as "menu" written in white over the keyframes and also in the properties slot. I can include some images here to help out in correcting me.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-1-395704638   This image shows my movie clip. This seems to be the problem it's having, identifying "menu." Did I do that incorrectly? It looks to be in order.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-2-395704633 This is inside of the movie clip named menu. You can see I did the same to name the button menu_button_1.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-3-395704627   This shows the action I gave to menu_button_1 in which I attempt to have it naviagte to Scene 1 frame 493.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-4-395704623 This shows where I'd like the button to go to. (It is hard to tell if that's frame 493 or 492. I figured that it should be ok either way and if this frame is 492 then it's easily changed once I get the darn thing working in general) (Also, I named the layer "peanuts." I tired entering the name "peanuts" as well but it didn't seem to work either, so I figured "493" is easier since I know that you can go to a specific frame by doing gotoandplay("scene 1" , #) and I'm not sure if it requires any additional stuff to go to a name.
http://girlfoxgirl.deviantart.com/art/Flash-Help-5-395704687    These are the errors I get. I totally agree with you- It seems very much to be an issue of getting it to recognize the "menu." However I am unsure where I named something wrong. Is this enough info to help you perhaps point out where that is?

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symbol on one
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on another
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See, I thought of that. It only works on the main timeline,
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actionscript in particular. I have created a flash piece that
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I am relatively new to Flash and am looking for help with a
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I have created a movieclip of an area which is placed so that
only the outer right edge is on the stage. When the mouse hovers
over the area, it moves onto the stage and reveals menu options. It
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I have been scouring the web for answers and most people say
that you cannot have a rollover within a rollover as the first
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I had to step out for awhile too.
Well, I'll give you a jump start on the AS version of Tweens.
Taking this approach will give you a better bit of sliding. With
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this forum. It shows you a better way of coding mouse interaction
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find code.
The menu's background is a movieclip and the menu's button is
a button. I only have one button, but the more the merrier as long
as they all have their own code and instance names. Though for the
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version and a Flash 8 version.
Sample Fla
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Sample Fla
File - Flash 8
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simple to find help online with, yet I'm finding it difficult to
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Thanks, I was able to place the code on the main timeline and
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