Calling a parent function when child .swf closes

I am adding a child .swf from the parent with a simple button. If this button is then clicked multiple times, the child is added multiple times. So I added the ".visible = false" to the button when clicked so the button cannot be clicked while the child is open.
Now, there is "Close" button on the child .swf that uses "this.parent.parent.removeChild(this.parent);" and would now need to set the parent button back to ".visible = true".
I have tried MovieClip.parent.parent.resetButton(); and parent as MovieClip.resetButton(); and many variations of the code. I get no errors but the code doesn't work either.
Any ideas?
Thank you.

Figured this out on my own (don't believe it) without the child/parent communication.
When the parent's button is clicked, I'm checking to see if the child already exists. If so, it won't create the child again.
I'd still like to know how to perform the communication between child and parent.

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I'm having a problem with this and I just can't figure it out
:( (I've been trying different things and staring at it for hours
and I'm losing my mind...)
So I have a Parent swf that loads a Child swf (this goes
without any problems), but I want the Parent to call a function in
the child, now this is where it goes wrong...
The function the Parent has to call is named "lookupcar" and
needs to give the value "wagen" with it. The problem I think is
that the Parent wants to call the function but it still needs to
load (correct me if I'm wrong). Is there a way to check if the
Child swf is loaded completely before trying to call the function?
Could you give me an example of this please? Or any other
suggestions on what goes wrong?
Code in the Parent
root.inhoud.createEmptyMovieClip("thetext", "thetext",
this.getNextHighestDepth());
root.inhoud.thetext.loadMovie("uitrusting-wagenpark.swf");
root.inhoud.thetext.lookupcar(wagen);
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(the function lookupcar)
_global.lookupcar = function(carnr:String){
trace("LOOKUPCAR, with car nr: " + carnr);
Thanks in advance for all the help.

Perfect....just to make sure i m taking care of it in a nice practical way....here is how i learned to access a file located in Child (researching other posts)
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At first I tried just adding loadNextMovie(); to the last
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Ok, sure. I have main.swf that loads external.swf. Main.swf
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Hi Kenchu1,
You can grab a copy of the open source API here:
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privateFunction
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Kenchu1 wrote:
> Patrick B,
> exactly! Something like that is what im looking for. I
have my own rather
> simple system right now with listeners and classes
calling these, but since i
> dont know how to call a private function, i had to make
all the listening
> classes functions public - something id rather avoid.
Exactly how did your
> event broadcasting system work? Oh, and we're talking
AS3 btw.
>
> How do i call a function via a reference? (to the
function? To what?)
>
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