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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