Addressing "high level" movie clips 1

[worldly1]

Hello,
Newbie warning-I'm just starting out in Flash.
I have a scene with a movie clip (MC)symbol B nested inside a MC symbol A. MC B is inserted into MC A's timeline at frame 10. That seems to work fine. When MC A reaches frame 10, MC B plays.

What I want is that when MC B gets to the end of it's timeline, it instructs MC A to go to frame 1 and stop.
I've tried putting an actionscript on the last frame of MC B ex. A.GotoAndStop(1) but that does nothing. MC B just loops. Is there a way to address the higher level MC from the nested one?

Thank you, Scott

 

[billwatson]

_parent.gotoAndStop(1);

 

[worldly1]

Bingo!

Thank you Bill.

I assume there is a list some where of these things (don't yet know the correct term) like _parent. What are these syntaxes called and where would I find a list with explanations at to what each is for.

Thank you, again.

Scott

 

[billwatson]

best place to start is the actionscript dictionary

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/