Re: FLASH: Sorry but - Tell Target Problem

[Simon Webster]

As my dog would say woof woof!


Thanks Karin, hit the nail on the head.



> Hi Simon,

> /pink should work.  Are you certain that pink exists at the time it is

> being tell targeted?

> If it exists in a new keyframe further down the time line then you

> cannot tell target it because it doesn't exist relative to the button

> that is targeting it.

> I know this, but spent the good part of yesterday trying to figure out

> why a tell targeting action would not work.  This was the reason.  I

> also discovered that if you have a mc this is masked but do not have

> anything in the mask layer (because I was making the first frame a

> park frame) it is like the mc under it also does not exist and you

> cannot tell target it.

>

> Karin Christensen

> Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

> www.cosmoaccess.net/~ivyacres/

>

>> I have a button inside an mc, the mc is placed on the main timeline.

>>

>> I want the button to play a different mc on the main timeline. The

> instance

>> of this mc is labelled pink.

>>

>> The action I'm using on the button is as follows;

>>

>> On Release

>>     Begin Tell target ("/pink")

>>         Goto and play (1)

>>     End Tell Target

>> End on

>>


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