Controling A Parent Timeline From A Loaded Movie

MacFly

Dec 24 2004, 10:12 AM

Hello,

I've got a movie that is loading a random swf into a clip.
Each random swf contains a different photograph which pans and then fades out.

What I need to do goto the first frame in the parent timeline and start the whole process again.

My questions are:

A) How do I reference the parent timeline, I've tried:
_parent.gotoAndPlay(1);
but it doesn't seem to work.

What's the best way to unload the movie once it's run it's course bearing in mind it uses the following random code to load it:
url = "image" + Math.round(Math.random()*1) + ".swf";
loadMovieNum (url, 1);

thanks in advance

round

Jan 28 2005, 03:12 PM

I'm not sure if i exactly get what your doing or more to the point how your doing it. But why not just get the .swf files your loading to loop by putting a goto at the end that way you don't have to play around with _parent .
Not sure how to unload your movie from your random function. I'm mean you could add a timer to it.
round