Re: FLASH: Custom Cursor

[John Dowdell]

At 10:52 AM 8/29/0, David Wallach wrote:

> In this movie I cannot get tell target to work AT ALL, but of course

> in any flash 5 from scratch, it works fine. What gives?


You should expect to be able to update and continue editing on old movies.

Notes:


--  Please keep a backup! Saving as FLA5 will mean that the file can no

longer be opened in Macromedia Flash 4. Update a *copy* of the file,

keeping an archive version.


--  "tellTarget" is deprecated, and it's recommended to move over to

JavaScript-style direct addressing of objects. See the ActionScript

Dictionary entries for "tellTarget" and "with".


--  Particularly when starting the new environment, please carefully check

that your variables and object names are not reserved terms. Macromedia

Flash 5 has many more ActionScript terms, and if something is named using a

reserved word, then it can get very confusing. Example: Don't name a

variable "date" or "math"!

    (The Macromedia Flash Player 5 has a special compatibility mode for old

SWFs where it will ignore new keywords... your old movies should work fine

in the new player, even if "date" is used as a target name.)


--  Some things which happened to work in the old version may no longer

work in the larger scripting environment... some of the files submitted

during the Player Public Beta had oddities such as properties named the

same as a clip, variables whose names started with a backslash (!),

improper use of .scroll functions... when troubleshooting a particular

balking case it's very useful to examine that individual content.



I'm sorry I can't tell from here what's different in that one movie you're

updating, Dave, but I do know that the normal case is that files can be

updated without incident. I hope the above relevant notes help, and if

there's another case that we can advise others about then that would be

greatly appreciated, thanks.


jd







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