ActionScript 3.0 :: MovieClip (Controlled By Extending Class) On Stage Reference
Jun 2, 2011
I'm currently working on a AS3.0 project in Flash. I have a main movie clip in flash on the stage. This mc contains 3 frames. They represent the pages in my application. In each of those frames are a lot of nested MCs. Such as menu buttons, display content for the MC buttons, etc. Everything is controlled by a class extending from MovieClip. When I run the application and press the green button on the second frame in a nested MC of the main Movie Clip on the stage. The event must jump to the 3th frame in that main MovieClip.
Here's the problem
If I immediately press the green button, everything works great.
But this does not happen when I press a different menu button first.
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