How to call a function from a child MC

[dougz]

Very basic TweenMax question here, but I can't find anything about it.

 

I need to have a button in a child movieclip that, when clicked, triggers a tween on a movieclip in the parent (root) timeline.

 

I've tried several (seemingly) logical options, but they are all throwing errors.

 

Here's one of the (incorrect) options, just to suggest what I'm trying to do:

close_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onClose);
function onClose(evt:MouseEvent):void{
	TweenMax.to(parent.what_btn, 5, {alpha:0});}

 

Can someone please post a simple AS3 example of how to do this?

 

Thank you.

[GreenSock]

Looks fine to me except you'd probably want to use getChildByName()

 

TweenMax.to(this.parent.getChildByName("what_btn"), 5, {alpha:0});

 

If you're still having trouble, please post an FLA that demonstrates the error.