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Targeting the Main Movie

The main (root) movie represents the main timeline of an SWF. All of your project's

other timelines exist, in some way, inside this one.

Targeting the main timeline is simple. The syntax is:

_root.play();

You can place this script on any timeline, exactly as shown, and it will always cause the

main timeline to play.

NOTE

An external movie (SWF) loaded into a level is also considered a root timeline. In the

section "Targeting Movies on Levels," we'll explain how this affects your scripting.

1. Open rootTarget1.fla in the Lesson03/Assets folder.

This file is identical to the one we just finished working on except that two buttons

appear on the lower-right portion of the stage. We will script these buttons to

resize the main timeline when they are clicked. We will then copy these buttons,

place them inside our movie clip instances, and—without modifying the target

paths used in the script—demonstrate how you can use _root to target the main