Forums: Flash:

Hi there,

I've got a real noobie question here, my background as an AS2 programmer is without using the Flash IDE, every so often I have to mix the two in the work that I do and it confuses me somewhat.

I think what I want to do is quite simple.

I have a MovieClip on stage, it's instance name has been set to home_copy_mc and it's linkage id has been set to home_copy_mc, I want to be able to use this MovieClip from my classes I have created.

I've tried using _root.home_copy_mc from inside my classes, but it seems that home_copy_mc isn't a direct child of _root.

My classes are organised in a MVC design pattern, and the main app class is created (which in turn creates all the sub classes that will work with my MovieClips on stage) in the first frame of my entire movie using...

var microsite : Microsite = new Microsite(_root);

you can get the movie to trace its path (trace(this)), make sure that the mc is named on all keyframes on its layer, and keep it on its own layer. check which _currentframe u r in, use for(var all in _root){trace(all+' '+_root[all])} to look round

Thanks JLM, that's some good info there I think you've set me off on the right track.