A button in one swf causing a movie clip in another swf to play?

[EBagg]

I currently have one swf referenced in another. One the main one I want a button to have a gotoAndPlay action that causes a movie clip in the other SWF to play a different frame. Anyone know how to accomplish this?

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[Cota]

If the swf is loaded into the main swf..then its just matter of pathing it. For example _root.OneMovie.TwoMovie.gotoAndPlay()...

[EBagg]

Here's what I have right now...

_root.MainTemplate.gotoAndPlay("MainTemplate.swf", bob, 3)

[Cota]

What is "bob" and I'm assuming 3 is the frame you want to play. Is this loaded into the main swf?

[EBagg]

bob is a movie clip in the load .swf, 3 is the frame of bob that I want to play.

[Cota]

_root.bob.gotoAndPlay(3); should work, assuming the structure is correct. What code did you use to load the swf?

[EBagg]

I made a movie clip, and inside is only this code:
loadMovie("MainTemplate.swf", this);

[Cota]

Then it would be _root.TheNameOfMovie.gotoAndPlay();
replacing TheNameOfMovie with the instance name you gave to that movie.

[EBagg]

Right now I have this on the main timeline:
loadMovie("MainTemplate.swf",1);

And this on the button:
_root.bob.gotoAndPlay(3);

but that doesn't seem to work....

[Cota]

loadMovie("MainTemplate.swf",1);
the movie that is being loaded into has what instance name?

[EBagg]

None...it's just actionscript on a frame...should I give the frame it's on a instance name?

[Cota]

Its always best to loadmovie into an empty movieclip...easier to control...cause then you just refer to it by the name of the empty movieclip.

[EBagg]

Alright yea I have a empty movie clip with the actionscript in there, the movieclip's instance name is "maintemplate".

so the actionscript I have for the button is:
_root.maintemplate.bob.gotoAndPlay(3);

...still not working..:(

[Cota]

Now where is bob coming from..based on what you've said the path should be
_root.maintemplate.gotoAndPlay(3);

[EBagg]

bob is a movie clip in the loaded .swf, I want to goto frame 3 of bob