ActionScript 3.0 :: Control Loader MC From Menu MC?
Nov 4, 2009
I am wondering what the best solution is to this problem. I have on my main timeline a movie clip (emptyMC) that I am loading my external SWFs into and I need to be able to access this loader movie clip from my menu, which is it's own movie clip on the main timeline. As it stands, when I have my buttons on the main timeline I have no issue. But once I put these same buttons into the menu MC I am lost as to how to "get back" to the loader on the main timeline to load and unload the external SWFs.Here is my current code that allows for me to load and unload with buttons on the main timeline. Is there away to modify this same code for my purposes?
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import flash.media.SoundChannel;
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