Movie Clips: resetear _root

Hola amigos aqui de vuelta con una preguntilla sobre _roots.
En el primer frame de mi flash tengo 2 capas una de botones
(tengo un boton
PRODUCTOS) y otra de clips, en la capa clips tengo un CLIP,
dentro de este
otro CLIP y dentro de este ultimo otro CLIP, ( instancia:
"contenidos") en
el ultimo clip tengo varios frames con varias etiquetas para
ir a sus
contenidos, todo ok, navego por mis contenidos, pero deseo
que al darle
CLICK nuevamente al boton PRODUCTOS me resetee el _root del
CLIP("contenidos"), deseo que estee en el frame 1 y stop.
Estoy trabajando todo con _roots espero comprendan mi
consultilla les tare
bien agradecido la orientacion.
Miguel

Ya!!! jeje un colega de otro foro me dio una manito y les
envio la respuesta
por si les interesa.
Solo tienes que crear la ruta desde _root hasta llegar
contenidos, al hacer
clic en productos, escribes algo como:
Código:
productos.onRelease = function() {
_root.clip1.clip2.contenidos.gotoAndStop(1);
Saludos!

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Any help with the code, or optimisation elsewhere would be
helpfully.
Heres a simplified version of the flash;
www.darkflame.co.uk/flashwork/Flash_popuptest.fla
Code for the scrolling;
_global.MoveUp = function(text) {
_root.ITproduct.IT_productlist._y =
_root.ITproduct.IT_productlist._y+6;
updateAfterEvent();
//trace('press');
Called and stopped by;
on (press){
//this._parent.IT_productlist._y =
this._parent.IT_productlist._y +10;
//_global.scrollon = "yes";
clearInterval(IntervalID);
IntervalID = setInterval(MoveUp,100);
updateAfterEvent()
//updateAfterEvent();
//MoveUp();
//scroll on
on (release) {
//this._parent.IT_productlist._y =
this._parent.IT_productlist._y +10;
clearInterval(IntervalID);
updateAfterEvent();
//scroll off
which is linked to a button.
I dont know if this is a actionscript problem, or the way the
page is made, or both.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Wrobel

you have extraneous graphics on-stage that are slowing the
scrolling (and even causing problems in the authoring environment).
here's your file with those graphics removed:
http://www.gladstien.com/Files.popupTest.fla

Can't get Simple button to Load Movie Clip

Hi I've looked around for the answer to my question on this
forum
but havent found it so here it goes. I am working on this
company's
Flash site that was built by an outside studio. I am using
CS3.
The url to the site is
http://www.bubbakeg.com.
(this link will take you to the main page click the shadow
graphic
on the left under Bubba and this will take you to the site I
am speaking
of. The site is basically 5 different pages or movie clip.
What I am
trying to do is basically change the "Spring Break" middle
graphic
(which is a Movie Clip) on the HOME page and add a simple
button
that will direct the user to a new page. When I replaced the
graphic
with a new Movie clip there was no problem but I have added
a
button to load a new page (movie clip) and nothing happens.
This
button is in the movie clip of the new graphic which is
called up
when the page loads. If i take this button and just put it
on the
Main Stage in Scene 1 by itself it works and loads the page
(movie clip). It does not however when it is embeded in the
Movie
Clip. The Flash site is basically 5 different Movie Clips
loaded into
an "Empty Clip". This empty clip has a timeline with each of
the
clips labeled and with their respective sized placeholders.
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when you click on either the links on the Nav bar or the
graphic
for each page it loads that movie clip on the main page. It
seems
like the button only wants to work on the main timeline. I
have
even replaced the code for the "Contact" button with the code
for the new button and it worked (opening new page). Here is
the
code for the new button that does not work:
on (release) {
_root.contentHolder.myHeight = 307;
_root.contentHolder.newLoc = 9;
heightAnimation();
I know the location and height from the above code are
referring to the placement and sizing of each movie clip
in the "Empty Clip". As i said before this heightAnimation
and the resizing of the new clip works fine when the
button resides in Scene 1 on the Main Timeline but not
within the new movie clip (graphic Ive created.)
I will upload the main chunk of the code that resides
in Scene 1 on the first frame of the "Actions" layer.
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it very much!
Please let me know if I can provide anymore info.
Thanks!
Greg

change:
function newLayerBT_CLICK(MouseEvent):void{
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function newLayerBT_CLICK(e:MouseEvent):void{

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