Playing MovieClip inside external swf

[darloScott]

The following post helped me get to the MovieClip inside of the external swf I am loading:

http://forums.greensock.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4242&p=16820&hilit=swf+movieclip#p16820

 

However I want to play the timeline of the movieclip in an external swf, so I attempt this by using

 

	_bgd = loader.getSWFChild("TestClip") as MovieClip;
	 _bgd.gotoAndPlay(2);

 

However all that happens is the Clip goes to frame 2 but does not play it's timeline (there is no stop(); in frame 2), it appears the clip just takes a snapshot of that frame. If I then try to manipulate the timeline with MouseEvents etc this has no effect.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Carl]

please try to recreate this problem with as little code as possible and provide 2 simplified fla files

 

1: the fla that does the loading

2: the fla that is being loaded with "TestClip" on the timeline.

 

then someone here can take a look at it. from the code you have provided it is difficult to ascertain the what is going wrong.

 

carl