Controling Movie Clips Timeline
I have a movie clip of a meter that movies when a song is being playing. I have a timeline in this movieclip with frame 1 showing movement, and frame 5 showing just a static image.
How do I interact with it from the main timeline? What I tried was meter_mc.gotoAndStop(5);
This didn't seem to do it though.
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Posted on: 12-22-2006, 01:48 AM
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