What is the difference between _root and parent?
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Answer / devendran
The super parent for all the movieClip is _root
but using the _parent you can get particular MovieClip's parent.
For example you are having one Movie Called MovieHolder_mc
and MovieHolder2_mc on Stage, and inner1_mc inside the
MovieHolder_mc. Now you can access the MovieHolder in Two Ways
_root.MovieHolder2_mc (Direct access)
to get this from the innerMovie
inner1_mc._parent._parent.MovieHolder2_mc
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 50 Yes | 7 No |
Answer / murali
_root is used to access outer Movieclip.
_parent is used to access Moviclip inside having the
moviclip.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 28 Yes | 11 No |
Answer / kavimani
_root to specify a absolute path.
_parent to specify a relative path to MovieClips.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 15 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / kannan ks
_root - root timeline of the current swf.
_parent - the object containing the current object.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 11 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / chiranjeevi
_parent is used to access the parent display
objects/properties of a MovieClip/Button. its something like
the relative path to the current MovieClip/Button. _root is
like the absolute path irrespective of the location of the
current MovieClip/Button.
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Answer / sathees
_root = Main Gate Key
_parent= Inner Room Gate Key
_root is the direct access.
_parent is reference of one outer movieclip
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Answer / dinesh anand
_root is used to acess movie clip or button which is placed
in the stage.
_parent is used in the child to acess the parent movie clip.
E.G: fruits is a movie clip inside this there is an another
movie clip named apple.
if we want to acess the fruits movie clip from apple movie
clip we use _parent.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / hariram
_root is the head tag for all inside the parent tag and
child tags.but _parent is the particular limitedtag only.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 3 No |
Answer / prabakaran
_root is refernce root timeline of movieclip
_parent is refernce current movieclip or object
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 7 No |
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