Help Please, Linking from a swf in a Scrollpane to positions on the main timeline

I have a scrollpane where I have loaded a swf of many small images that are set up as buttons.
How do I create the link between this swf/actionscript to the main fla/timeline that the scrollpane is contained in?
Thanks

Buttons function with eventListeners, if they are actual button symbols then you should have an unique instance name, otherwise convert them to symbols and name the instances, if they are symbols and named then you can code them to do whatever you want.
Add an event listener and function call for each button in the actionscirpt of the swf and provide the targets of the frame, anchor, or label for the event in the function.
img1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, img1Handler);
img2_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, img2Handler);
img3_btn. etc...
function img1Handler(event:MouseEvent):void
     //go to and stop on the frame to display
     //you can also use frame labels or anchors
     // gotoAndStop("label");
     gotoAndStop(2);
function img2Handler(event:MouseEvent):void
     //if you put the images in scene 2 for example then call the Scene the frame is in.
     // in this case for example, frame 3, Scene 1
     gotoAndStop(3, "Scene 1");
Duplicate for each button/img.
Have fun.

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I'm having trouble passing a variable from a movie clip in my
flash file to the main timeline.
I have a movieclip with the instance name IntroNav which
contains several buttons. Clicking a button sets the variable
"page" to a specific name, i.e. page = "home"
However, outside of the movie clip, on the main timeline I am
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Umm, yes ... declare your variables correctly.
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var page:String; //strict typing
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declaration
Do not declare the variable in your buttons, you would have
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Declare it on the main timeline at the lowest level. You do not
need to use it as a _global, you just need to resolve your path
issues. You can 'set' the variable value from a button, without any
problem, but you have to call to the variable correctly.
You do not 'name' a variable as "_root.page" , the '_root'
refers to the lowest level of the SWF or the main timeline, as does
a call to ' _level0' (that's a zero). If the variable is declared
on the main timeline, and you're calling from the MC/button or
anywhere you can refer to the variable by calling to it by
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Is it possible to control a MovieClip on the main timelne from another loaded clip?
I see posts that control loaded clips, but most are all from the loader in the main timeline. I have a moviclip on the main timeline that I want to make visible or invisible depending on what keyframe is playing in another loaded swf.
If I try to call the movieClip from the loaded SWF I get "error #1119. Access of possibly undefined property...." because it doesn't exist in the loaded SWF, just the main timeline.
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I am not clear what you mean because you are saying you are trying to target a movieclip that does not exist where you are trying to target it.
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trace(MovieClip(parent.parent));
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on this link          http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/918/cpsid_91887.html
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You don't make it clear what event finish is for. But let's assume that your MC is being loaded from the clip that you're referring to as root. In the main Document Class of that swf, you'd have
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Attach a movieclip from the main timeline inside another movieclip.

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I'm also looking to load a library based movie-clip into a stage based movie-clip, so that I can inturn swap it with other movie clips to act as different pages (page2_mc etc) which will be used in different sections of the application to give chapters as such.
I've had a go at the above but can't get a result, though it did not throw an error. I also had a trace() on each side and both of those triggered.
The stage based mc I called pageMC and the content mc I called content the same as your example
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I have an swf with some custon animation functions using actionscript 3. I'm refering to the main timeline with Movieclip(root) and it works just fine.
However, this swf is going to be loaded inside another (a custom player), and when that happends, everything stops working.
I think it's because the Movieclip(root) is now referencing to the loader swf and not the loaded anymore, but I just can't find any information on how to fix that.

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I'm placing this code on frame 1, and calling the function textAnimate() whenever I need to insert some text.
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I'd ask cause it's making me nuts. I'm all of 2 days into AS3
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SomeOtherClass.as - Some helper Class
Main.as would have instructions in its initialization method
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I worked with the problem last night and the solution I
started coming to involved creating my own custom document class
based off which extends MovieClip. My thought is that way I have
access to the initialization routine of the timeline itself and
that all of the elements on the main timeline should be
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I have a project in Flash with four external AS files, which are linked to items in the library using AS linkage.
What I want to do is call a function in one of these files from the main timeline, how would I go about doing this? I'm not currently using a document class, most of the code is in Frame 1 of the main timeline.
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I have 24 pairs of clickable elements, each in their own symbols, and all 24 of those symbols sit inside another symbol. I want all 24 to be able to set the same global variable when clicked. I can't find that this question is addressed anywhere, which makes me think I may be stuck in a Flash mindset and approaching the task in the wrong way. (There are however MANY discussions of how to address objects at different levels in the hierarchy. That's well covered.)
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sym.myGlobalVar = 1;
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sym.getComposition().getStage().myGlobalVar = 2;
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sym.myGlobalFunction = function(){
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Hi, thanks for your help. To describe the scenario a bit better...
I have an empty mc on the stage called "text_content_mc".
On the first frame of the main timeline, I load a library mc 'text_content' (identifier name: text_content) into "text_content_mc" using:
text_content_mc.attachMovie("text_content", "text_content", 10);
From the main timeline, I have attempted to navigate to marker "news" within the library mc, now inside "text_content_mc" using:
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wrong.
I have about 15 frames on the main timeline. Each frame
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importantly they transition from frame to frame based on the
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