Nested clip onRollover problems

I'm setting up a gallery with XML, and I'm able to attach the
clips but the onRollOver functions doesn't work. Is it because it's
nested?
Here's the code:

it's because your movieclips are loadMovie() targets. all
mouse handlers applied to them are lost with each load update. to
remedy, load into a childmovieclip and apply your rollOver handlers
to the parent movieclips or wait until loading is complete before
defining rollOver handlers.

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Problem communicating to nested clips

I am an occasional flash user trying to segue from
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a struggle figuring out how to communicate to nested movie clips
from the root timeline.
The root timeline has only one frame. There is a movieclip on
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You pretty much answered this for yourself... "The only way I
can get it to work is to move the function to the the frame on the
nested clip's timeline where the button is instantiated."
You might be able to create a special class for this button
that has its function specifically defined for it, and instantiate
it at frame 20, but you'll probably save time just assigning the
code where the button exists.

Playing different Movie Clips onRollover?

I have several buttons that I would like to play different
movie clips
onrollover on the stage. So if button 1 is rolled over it
plays a clip
in the lower right corner and when rolled off it stops and if
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How is this done?
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This is the code I am currently using to play and stop a
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myPlay_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMc);
myStop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopMc);
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Importing SVG with nested clip-path

I'm having serious issues in Illustrator CS5 trying to import SVG files with nested clip-path properties.
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Has the clip marker problem been resolved in Premiere cs6?

Has the clip marker problem been resolved in Premiere CS6. As of early July, it was not! Navigating, synchronizing clips seems impossible.

Explain your problems with markers in this feature request form: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Sorry, that's all I can offer you.
TrueFriction wrote:
I'd just like to add my voice to the chorus here - namely that Marker functionality for CS6 is extremely lacking, and has made my workflow for various tasks much longer and more tedious.
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2) is there a way to direct where the nested clips get created?

Hmm, check your history panel - my bet is that it *did* do a replace clip, but probably not with the one you think. When you selected 'Nest', it creates a new sequence in the project panel, and - here's the catch - it also put the focus on that nested clip. Now, when you choose 'replace with clip from bin', it is actually doing what you ask - it's replacing your nested clip with the one that has focus, ie the same nested clip. So, yeah, you could call it a subtle bug. Try clicking on the clip you want to swap in again in your other bin, try the command again... I bet it'll work.
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(n1,n2)
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(n3)
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REFRESH WITH PRIMARY KEY FAST
AS
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REFRESH WITH PRIMARY KEY FAST
AS
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Hello,
This is I think my third thread on these forums and in my
previous threads I had always got some help.Well, now I have
another serious problem, can you help me?
I am unable to create a function that can control movie
clips. Let me explain:-
I have 10 movie clips on the stage and I have assigned them
that whenever they crash to an object, they will go to a random
position. Writing this code ten times for each movie clip would be
very tedious, so, I thought about creating a function, but, it
doesn't work. Here's the function, can you correct it?
var object:movieClip;
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Thanking All,
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Thanks for the reply,
I tried that, it worked!
But, now, I am encountering a really odd problem. This time
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code but then after a while, it just passes through the object.
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Chinmaya
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defines speednum somewhere before, so that isn't the
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