control movie clip in container from button inside other movie clip 1

[newflasher]

There are three movie clips involved in this question.

1. A main movie clip that has a target empty movie clip where an external swf loads.

2. A menu movie clip that is built from button symbols and has its own timeline.

3. The external movie.

When a user clicks on the menu, the external swf loads into the empty movie clip target. This part works fine. Here's the code:
on (release) {
loadMovie ("Lesson1.swf", "_root.container"
}

I want to use one external swf for all lesson, versus 20 external swfs. The problem I'm having is controling at what frame the external swf loads. I've tried adding --gotoAndStop (15) -- for example. I've also tried adding, gotoAndStop "_root.container" (15), but that doesn't work either. The gotoAndStop action ends up controlling the menu movie clip timeline instead of the movie loaded into the container. I figure this is because the menu mc has "embedded" buttons and it's own timeline.

Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Sheila

 

[oldnewbie]

If I understand you correctly, once the external movie is loaded, you can control it with...

_root.container.gotoAndStop(15);

Or...

_root.container.gotoAndStop("frame_label"




Regards,

Bacon, eggs and sunshine are still good for me!

 

[billwatson]

assumes all have frame labels can be changed to nums

on (release) {
loadMovie("lesson1.swf?frame=lesson1",_root.container);
}

next button

on (release) {
loadMovie("lesson1.swf?frame=lesson2",_root.container);
}



first frame in lesson1.swf

if(frame==undefined){
gotoAndPlay(2)
}else{
gotoandPlay(frame)
}

frame 2

gotoAndPlay(1);

and in the frame actions for all named frames

frame = undefined;



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You know you're old if you can remember when bacon, eggs and sunshine were good for you

 

[newflasher]

Thanks oldnewbie and billwatson!

 

[Kitcalyx]

Hi I was wondering if you could elaborate on the control movieclip. I am afraid you lost me with the frame 2, lesson1, instructions. As well, where do I put the frame=undefined, does it conflict with other scripts? I have heard that one should not numericaly name framescripts, is this acurate?
Thankyou for your patience.

 

[billwatson]

you should make make frame labels meaningful strings.

in this context frame is just a variable holding the value of the frame label to jump to. it wont conflict with any other scripts unless they too have access to this variable.