paths in multiple movie clips

[hhiiffii]

I am new to this and need help in creating correct paths in several swf files. I have given this a good deal of effort but can’t seem to be able to figure it out. I believe it has to do with _root in some of my code but everything I try like this or _parent doesn’t do it. I obviously don’t know what I am doing.



General site layout: (I think this is how it is supposed to work)



- Main Movie = jcproject.swf

- Button (photo_btn) in jcproject.swf loads photogalery.swf.

- photogalery.swf has Movie Clips (content) and (transition) within it.

- script attached to MC (content) starts MC (transition) playing at transition frame labelled “opening”.

- transition identifies slideshowa at frame 1 and loads it at frame 9 on transition timeline.

- buttons (b1-b4) in photogalery.swf load slideshowa – d.swf’s into MC (content) on photogalery timeline.


photo_btn code is:



on (release) {

gotoAndStop(89);

holder_mc.loadMovie("photogalery.swf");

}



photogalery frame 1 code is:



b1.onRelease = function() {

if (_root.section != "slideshowa.swf") {

_root.section = "slideshowa.swf";

_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");

}

};

b2.onRelease = function() {

if (_root.section != "slideshowb.swf") {

_root.section = "slideshowb.swf";

_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");

}

};

b3.onRelease = function() {

if (_root.section != "slideshowc.swf") {

_root.section = "slideshowc.swf";

_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");

}

};

b4.onRelease = function() {

if (_root.section != "slideshowd.swf") {

_root.section = "slideshowd.swf";

_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");

}

};



MC (content) code is:



onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

if (!loaded && this._url != _root._url) {

if (this.getBytesLoaded() == this.getBytesTotal()) {

loaded = true;

_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("opening");

}

}

}



MC (transition) frame 1 code is:

_root.section = "slideshowa.swf";



MC (transition) frame 9 code is:

loadMovie(_root.section, _root.content);

stop();