Navigating Movie Clip Timelines

Stop a Movie Clip inside a Movie Clip inside a Movie Clip with Dot Syntax

Let's think about the structure of our embedded Movie Clips based on their Instance Names:

vehicle_moving contains vehicle contains body and wheels

You can think of it like a folder system, where a path to body might look like:

vehicle_moving/vehicle/body

This just about works. The only difference is, ActionScript uses dot syntax for the navigation structure, so our path looks like this:

vehicle_moving.vehicle.body

Each element is separated with a dot. We can add the stop(); method to the end of that path to stop the body timeline.

First, insert an actions layer on the main timeline, then bring up the Actions window:

Now check it out... no more blinking:

Try to apply the same formula to stop wheels, because they are going to do the same thing once you start adding more frames.