Calling a user-defined function

You can use a target path to call a function in any Timeline from any Timeline, including from the Timeline of a loaded SWF file. If a function was declared using the _global identifier, you do not need to use a target path to call it.

To call a function, enter the target path to the name of the function, if necessary, and pass any required parameters inside parentheses. For example, the following statement invokes the function sqr() in the movie clip MathLib on the main Timeline, passes the parameter 3 to it, and stores the result in the variable temp:

var temp = _root.MathLib.sqr(3);

The following example uses an absolute path to call the initialize() function that was defined on the main Timeline and requires no parameters:

_root.initialize();

The following example uses a relative path to call the list() function that was defined in the functionsClip movie clip:

_parent.functionsClip.list(6);