Re: FLASH: LoadMovie, pathnames, and tell targeting

[Sohrab Pirayesh]

While we are on the subject here is a simple question,


I have a movieX in _level0. I load MovieY into level 1 of Movie X.

I have a movie clip that is set to stop inside of movie Y with instance name

"main".

When movie Y is fully loaded, I want Movie X to tell the movie clip inside

MovieY to 'play'. Simple right?


here is my script:

----------

percent = _level1.getBytesLoaded()/_level1.getBytesTotal();

if (percent = 1) {

 tellTarget ("_level1/main") {

  play ();

 }

 gotoAndPlay ("introstart");

}

------------

The preload thing works great, what doesn't work is the tell target. When I

run this movie I get an error saying, " Target not found:

Target="_level1/main" Base="_level0"".


Is there a special way of tell targeting in flash 5 that i don't know about?

Is _level1/main improper syntax? Am I losing it? I have tried a million

combinations and nothing works.


I've been staring out this for quite a while now and maybe I am not seeing

something simple.

If someone could just put me out of my misery, it would be much appreciated.


-sohrab




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