Hello,
I'm not an expert in Flash, but I definitely had a working understanding of earlier (AS2) versions. The new changes in Actionscript 3, though, have me completely confused on things that were once very simple. I have a timeline that contains a movie clip full of navigation buttons. Within that movie clip, I would like one button to return to the head of the timeline one level up. In the old days, I'd use _root.gotoAndPlay(1) and be done with it. Now, no dice. I get the following:
"1061: Call to a possibly undefined method gotoAndPlay through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjec
t."
I saw in the help that _root is now just root, but that doesn't do it either. Also, I've tried parent.gotoAndPlay with no success. I also tried referring to the scene (gotoAndPlay(1,"Scene 1")), which I've never tried before and it told me that the scene could not be found--I don't know if it's legal to call from within the same scene, as I've never had to.
I (somewhat) understand that the hierarchy has been messed around with a bit, and I think the problem may (not sure) be that my movie clip contains an flvPlayback component, which is also a displayObject (which is what root falls under now). Unfortunately, I don't know how to get and specify which object I mean. The help file is dreadful in this regard, mentioning only that root has been replaced by flash.display.DisplayObjec
t.stage (which I tried pasting in just for kicks--doesn't work, either; I don't know the displayObject in question).
Can somebody tell me how to get this thing to jump back to frame 1? The structure, again, is : Scene>Movie Clip>Frame with AS3 and Movie Clip.
Thanks!
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