User Guide

Button._parent 155

Button._parent

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

my_btn._parent:MovieClip.property

_parent:MovieClip.property

Description

Property; a reference to the movie clip or object that contains the current movie clip or object.

The current object is the one containing the ActionScript code that references

_parent.

Use

_parent to specify a relative path to movie clips or objects that are above the current

movie clip or object. You can use

_parent to move up multiple levels in the display list as in

the following:

this._parent._parent._alpha = 20;

Example

In the following example, a button named my_btn is placed inside a movie clip called my_mc. The

following code shows how to use the

_parent property to get a reference to the movie clip my_mc:

trace(my_mc.my_btn._parent);

The Output panel displays the following:

_level0.my_mc