Controlling a movie clip timeline

I am using a loaded movie clip in my movie. This script is on
a button:
loadMovie("largeWorks_mc.swf",_root.largeWorksE_mc);
Why can''t I control this loaded movie clip from a button in
another movie clip:
large1_btn.onPress = function (){
_root.largeWorks_mc.gotoAndStop(5);

quote:
Originally posted by:
Opera Rat
Yes, I'm loading largeWorks_mc into the target movie clip
_root.largeEmpty_mc.
Let me see if I can explain this better. If you look at the
old version (the one that loads the entire flash file at once), you
can see the different areas of the movie I am talking about. You
can see it at anthonysmithjr.com
There is nothing there for me.
and then view the gallery. I've just added about 50 new pics
and don't want to keep the gallery the way it is now - loading
everything at once. So each section of the gallery will load when
you go to it - large works and small works.
The thumbnails are a movie clip within the root movie. Then
the large version of the pics are another movie clip in the root
movie. So when your looking at the large work section your seeing
the main movie (the purple background and buttons) and 2 movie
clips (thumbnails and largeWorks). I no longer want large works
movie clip to load when the movie is opened because it takes too
long. So in a version that I have not put up yet I have the code:
gotoAndStop(6)
loadMovie("largeWorks_mc.swf",_root.largeWorksE_mc);
Ok.. this code will work just fine, but instead of having
both LoadMovie() and gotoAndStop() on the same frame, it might be
easier to simply have
gotoAndStop() on your buttons, THEN, on the frame that it
goes to and stops, have the loadMovie()
when you click on the large works tab. This loads the movie
clip of the large version of the pics and it also take you to frame
6 or the root timeline (where the large works thumbnail clip is
located).
So if you were to do what i suggested, on frame six you would
also have your LoadMovie() command.
When I click on a thumbnail in the movie clip
largeThumbnails_mc in the root movie it should tell the movie clip
that loaded next to it to go to the frame that contains that the
large version of that thumbnail.
yes you would use something like this to target it...
this. HOLDER . WHAT WAS LOADED . gotoAndStop()
im using that instead of your instance names because im still
abit fuzzy on what is loaded and when.
So I do want to control the only timeline in largeWorks_mc
(just 50 frames of pics) from the other movie clip in the root
movie. See the site and see if this is any clearer.
I really appreciate your help. I'm gutting my bathroom at the
same time I'm trying to get this thing to work and it's driving me
insane.
No problems.
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buttons in movie clips
> do not exhibit their various states. Up, Over etc. I'm
relatively sure that you
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any graphic symbols
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for me to check ?
> Do buttons operate independently of the Movie Clip
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> I have one Movie Clip with a one frame time line, should
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> it it?
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Try to upload the source, let us check it out for you, spare
you time on guessing :)
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Urami
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