_root in actionscript 3

[beier]

Im having some trouble with flash actionscript 3.. I have two movie clips, under one of them I have a button that should start the other movie clip. I cant find out how to tell the compiler to gotoAndPlay(2) on that specific movieclip. In actionscript 2 I would use _root.AboutPage.gotoAndPlay(2), but that doesn't work with actionscript 3.

Anyone know how to do this in actionscript 3?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

The most basic form is AboutPage.gotoAndPlay(2) but if "AboutPage" is actually the name property and not the variable name then it's MovieClip(getChildByName("AboutPage")).gotoAndPlay(2).

There are other ways too. It all depends on how are you setting things up.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk