Re: FLASH: Tell Target

[Dorian Nisinson]

Hi,

	I think I might be the guilty party. go look at:

http://www.bway.net/~dorian/TTtutor.htm

See if that helps.


Dorian


Nigel Randsley-Pena wrote:

> 

> Dave,

> > For an instance name of "soundclip",  what's the difference between the

> > path syntax of  "/soundclip" and "soundclip"?  The manual says that the

> > first is a top level object of the current movie and that the second is a

> > child of this movie clip? I don't get the difference.

> 

> Yes, and it's quite right. Let's use this scenario :

> You have two mc's A and B, A contains a child mc called childA.

> Now you palce thes two mc onstage. If you want to reference them from

> your sage, i.e. your current level you can use A or B or /A or /B. If

> you want to reference childA you will need to use A/childA or /A/childA.

> >From mc A if you want to reference childA you will use childA. If you

> use /childA Flash will look for a top level movie called childA and will

> not find it. Still from mc A if you use /B you will be able to target

> the B mc but if you use B the mc will not be found.

> I do know one of us on this list has a good diagram with all this info

> but I can't remeber who right now, so would the guilty party please

> speak up ? Take a look at it and I think all will be clear.

> 


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