Play timeline from inside symbol

I saw a post on this issue but was not sure where to put the code I read there. I would appreciate if you can tell me how exactly to edit this code line to work
I am inside a symbol "oneAnimation". At the end of the animation "backBtn1" appears. Inside this button, I have added an event on click. I want the stage timeline to play from the label "startNumber" when this button inside the symbol is clicked.
So far it's not jumping back to the main time line.
sym.getComposition().getStage().play("startNumber");

The label seems to be in that symbol, so all you need is sym.play('startNumber');
You code is to play a label on the same timeline.
See my blog on edgehero.com
http://www.edgehero.com/articles/scope

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In trying to learn Edge, is there a way to return playback (play from) once an animation is complete within a symbol?
For instance, I have the main timeline that shows a symbol animation on creationcomplete, but when the animation is finished in the symbol and I hide the symbol, the main timeline is no longer playing. What would I need to do to return playback control to resume playback of the main timeline? I have a label I would like to play from on the main timeline, but I have not found a way to call the main timeline from within the symbol.
This was something common in Flash.
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Hi escargo,
Say we use two symbols object1 and object2.
The main timeline has an interpolation on object2 from label “mainAnim“. Its autoplay property is set to false : the playhead stops at 0 ms.
A third symbol nested contains the interpolation on object1. Its autoplay property is set to true, so it plays directly.
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sym = the current symbol nested
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sym.getComposition().getStage().play(‘mainAnim’); = play the main timeline from the given label.
You can download the example here : https://app.box.com/s/6svvskydh952dfxbr3xb
Gil
PS : threads with examples for neigboring problems
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5410456#5410456
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5192205#5192205

Target Stage and append iframe from inside symbol????

Having trouble again. I am SLOWLY getting use to the CC 2014 thing =).
Now I need to be able to target a Symbol on the stage from within an element inside a symbol and append it with an <iframe> and pass attributes to the iframe.
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Help please -- there really needs to be more ADVANCED examples of possible methods of targeting. I find a lot about targeting symbols inside of symbols,or Stage to symbols, but not much on symbols to stage to another symbol also on the stage.
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Dropbox - videoPhotoUI.zip

dharmk
Thanks for the input. Just what I needed, I had to adjust my thinking, but got it to work because you took the time to look at my file and offer the help. Really appreciate it!! Here's how I made it work (for all three) video buttons:
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youtubevidtwo.attr('frameborder','0');       // 1 | 0
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place a trigger on the rectangle to:
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First, the Game class, it has two functions. The first one is the constructor function and it launches at the beginning of the game: First the Game function:
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As you get better at this, you'll get into custom events, and the eventListener for the button will exist in the MenuPage class file, or even in another class file that you create just for the button. Something like StartButton.as But for now, we can do it as above.
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//Add the zombie
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public function startGame(evt:MouseEvent):void
zombie = new Zombie;
addChild(zombie);
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For this to work, each frame in the Gun MovieClip has to have some stop and play commands.
But.. you said no code on our timeline!! Liar!
I know. This is the exception. You will need basic stop() commands and gotoAndPlay commands to loop animations. Any MovieClip that has more than one frame will need something to control it.
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Frame 1: stop();
Frame 2: no actionScript... and I mean nothing, not even the words, "no actionScript"
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consider me ignorant. I do have plenty of application development
experience in other areas though.
I can't seem to create a class that can reference an instance
of a movie clip on my main timeline. I'd post code of what I've
tried but I've gone through so many desperate edits & wild
guesses that it was just garbled junk before I deleted it all.
Basically here's how I figured Flash could work, though maybe
it doesn't work this way at all.
I'm assuming that with AS 3 being so big on being a true
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tools just to design my interface. Create a button... place it
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files.
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Interface.fla - My interface
Button_1
Button_2
TextField_1
Main.as - My main controller class using to handle all of my
applications behavior
SomeClass.as - Some helper Class
SomeOtherClass.as - Some helper Class
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to go ahead & attach events to buttons & initialize
anything else that needs to happen when the application starts.
From there on it would all be objects communicating back &
forth. Button_1 would get clicked with would fire
Main.someMethod(). Main.someMethod() would then do it's thing and
set the value of TextField_1. All very clean & code is very
separated from interface.
Unfortunately I can't for the life of me figure out how AS3
classes reference each other like that. There doesn't seem to be
any kind of a global 'root' or '_root' I can use to locate any
movie clips on the stage. I've searched the help & the web for
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have a tone of ActionScript just shoved into frame 1. That just
seems... ugh! (::shudder::)
Can someone maybe point me in the right direction here? I'm
really willing to do my homework but I can't seem to locate the
info I need to get started. Also, is there an ActionScript IRC
channel or something maybe?
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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
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developer. I know very little about actionscript so if you
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[/ preface]
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I'm running into a problem which is getting me crazy.
I have the following case :
- 1 symbol (_Page_Background) containing an animation with the following trigger @0s :
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If you're trying to access an element in a symbol, you'd combine these two, such as sym.getSymbol("symbolName").$("elementName")
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All is explained in detail here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/edgeanimate/api/current/index.html
hth,
Joe

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