flash actionscript: Hi, I have a little typewriter function where I pass in a reference to a
textfield as shown below. I'm going to add this movie in another movie and
don't want to use an absolute path. Can anyone tell me how to relatively
reference the textfield variable? Thanks!

qa_txt is the variable name of a dynamic textfield created in the frame.

typewriter("qa_txt", qatxt, 24, 0);

function typewriter(txtfield, msg, chars, skp)
{
_root[txtfield] = (msg.substr(0, nextChar + skp) + "_"); // why does this
statement work?
this[txtfield] = (msg.substr(0, nextChar + skp) + "_"); // and this
doesn't? how do reference this?

other code...
};

if you don't want the function to worry about where the textfield is you should
pass a reference to the textfield in the arguments:

typewriter(this.qa_txt, qatxt, 24, 0);

function typewriter(txtfield, msg, chars, skp)
{
txtfield.text = ....
};

does that make sense?...