help please... probs with targeting a mc

[bugg]

ok, I have two movie clips ("_root.ani" and "_root.pic&quot on the stage that can be in three different orientations, for the sake of simplicity, lets say levels 0, 1, and 2. I have three buttons that tell mcs what to do (normal button-tells both to goto level 1, ani button tells ani to goto level 2 and pic to goto level 0, and a pic button that tells pic-level 2, ani-level 0) I have used function calls as I plan on adding more to them later. here's the problem, "ani" works fine, no matter which mc I name "ani", they both work fine whilst named that, "pic" on the other hand won't work at all, I've tried other names and they just don't work. I have run through this for the last 2 hours, even re-written it, with no success, can anybody see why the're not working?

thanks much
-bugg

(on a storage layer @ the top)

//variables
_root.aniLevel
_root.picLevel

//functions

function index (){
if (_root.aniLevel == 0) {
_root.ani.gotoAndPlay (38)
}
//if ani small, then ani normal
else if (_root.aniLevel == 2) {
_root.ani.gotoAndPlay (50)
};
//if ani big, then ani normal

_root.aniLevel = 1;
//ani normal

if (_root.picLevel == 0) {
_root.pic.gotoAndPlay (38)
}
//if pic small, then pic normal
else if (_root.picLevel == 2) {
_root.pic.gotoAndPlay (50)
};

_root.picLevel = 1;
};

function ani (){
if (_root.aniLevel == 0) {
_root.ani.gotoAndPlay (26)
}
else if (_root.aniLevel == 1) {
_root.ani.gotoAndPlay (14)
};

_root.aniLevel = 2;

if (_root.picLevel == 1) {
_root.pic.gotoAndPlay (2)
}
else if (_root.picLevel == 2) {
_root.pic.gotoAndPlay (62)
};

_root.picLevel = 0;
};

function pic (){
if (_root.picLevel == 0) {
_root.pic.gotoAndPlay (26)
}
else if (_root.picLevel == 1) {
_root.pic.gotoAndPlay (14)
};

_root.picLevel = 2;

if (_root.aniLevel == 1) {
_root.ani.gotoAndPlay (2)
}
else if (_root.aniLevel == 2) {
_root.ani.gotoAndPlay (62)
};

_root.aniLevel = 0;
};

(on an actions layer below storage)
stop ();
_root.aniLevel = 1;
_root.picLevel = 1;

(buttons say - ani button for instance)
on (release, releaseOutside) {
_root.ani ();
}

 

[bugg]

third time was the charm, I rewrote it all again, and renamed the functions, and it works, my guess it that there was conflict with the function name and the mc names being the same.