Movie Clips Within Movie Clips: Text Link Problem
Hello.
I have a Movie Clip that is my main one with another Movie Clip inside of it. In the subordinate Movie Clip, I wish to have text linking frame (13) to frame (14) for instance. The problem that manifests is that while buttons is the subordinate Movie Clip link to frames within it with no complications, the text link from 13 to 14 with its respective code links to the last frame (would be 14) in the main Movie Clip.
Am I doomed to convert all text links to buttons in the subordinate Movie Clip or is there (what I am praying for) a code to work around this and keep frame links confined to the subordinate Movie Clip? I would appreciate any help that anyone can offer regarding this problem. Many Thanks.
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Posted on: 12-24-2005, 12:12 AM
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If you'd like to see the movie, you can check it out here
http://www.roznet.com/ and click on the new roznet preview link, keep in mind it's just a preview and will eventually be full of nice effects and content, but for now it's very basic
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