ActionScript 2.0 :: Controlling Parent Movie?
Sep 8, 2009
I have a portfolio page with several trailer thumbnails (a portfolio list). If you click on each, the page changes and you see the trailer in a video player, plus more info about the film. I used two frames in the timeline: the first frame has the clip with the thumbnails (port_list). The second frame has a movie clip container and the video player. The idea is that pressing the respective button from port_list will load the details of that movie and the movie into the video player. I am using this script:
ZSQ_but.onRelease = function (){
_parent.gotoAndStop("por_details");
myplayer.contentPath = "videos/ZSQ.flv";[codde]....
Even though the script looks alright (and works alright if at the root level), it will not work from the child clip. What am I doing wrong?
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function finished_loading (e:Event) {
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