Simple answer needed? movie clip in button problems

[motte]

I hope someone can help. How do I refer to a movie clip in a button? Let me tell my problem. On the root timeline I have a button. When I cursor over the button, it activates the buttons movie clip. Inside that movie clip I have a dynamic textfield that should display "hello". What I can't do is display the text in that field. I can do it if the textfield is in the root timeline, but I don't want it that way.

The button is named...button
The movie instance is...mov_instance
The textfield in mov_instance is textfield...just to keep it all simple.

I tried this (pseudocode):
on(rollover)
{
mov_instance.textfield="hello";
}

That doesn't work. I'm guessing because mov_instance is not at the root. But how do I refer to it then? Please let me know.

Mike

 

[davdesign]

you could just set the text field variable to /:textfield and use the following actions on your button:

on (rollOver) {
    /:text = "yourtext";
}

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^​

 

[davdesign]

you could just set the text field variable to /:textfield and use the following actions on your button:

on (rollOver) {
    /:textfield = "yourtext";
}

TYPO in text variable in first post

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^​

 

[motte]

Thanks for the tip. All is well now.

Mike

 

[davdesign]

cheers for the info Mike, I'll let you know of my progress in the coming weeks/months ;-)

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^​