Question

I have to call a function that is defined on the main stage of my project, and I have to call it from a MovieClip, what can I do?
I’m using flash cs5.5 and AS3.0

Answer 1

There are multiple ways to access the MainTimeline from objects on the stage. Probably the most reliable is ‘root’, but there is also ‘parent’ (but only if you MovieClip is a direct child of the main timeline).

// root should always work
Object(root).myFunc();

// parent will only work if your movieclip is a direct child of the main timeline
Object(parent).myFunc();

Note that you have to cast these are generic Objects (or MovieClip would work) because they return typed classes that don’t have a ‘myFunc’ function in them.

You’ll need this code on your main timeline:

function myFunc():void {
  trace("My function got called!");
}