ActionScript 3.0 :: Accessing Root From A Dynamic Clip?
Jun 13, 2009
Basically I have a _mc that I am calling in from the library. When I get to the end of the clip I want it to advance the root time line to frame 3.This is the code I have at the end of the _mc
MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(3);
This is the error I get :Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.at introScene/frame91()
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::Stage@44370ba1 to flash.display.MovieClip.
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