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Relative Target Paths in Flash

Flash reserves three keywords to make it easier to

access your movie clips and objects in ActionScript 3:

this, parent, and root. The keyword refers to the

Timeline you are currently working on. The parent

keyword refers to the object that your current object

is inside. For example, if you are writing a script on

the Timeline of ball in the previous example, and you

want to reference field, your target path would be the

following:

this.parent

The root keyword always refers to the main Timeline

of your Flash movie. So, to reference field another

way from the Timeline of ball, you could use ...