ActionScript 3.0 :: Communicate To A Child In Different Frames?
Jul 8, 2010
I have no clue on how to reference to different childs in a movieclip on different frames. Let me explain the situation:
I have a movieclip containing different views of a car distributed on frames. On these frames there are targets that must respond when clicked (the position of the targets vary from a frame to another) I can only reference to targets on the first frame.
ex: Movieclip.target1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLIC K, showPart)
how can I communicate to the targets on the other frames of my Movieclip ?
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