RE: FLASH: load movie and location

[Paul Willoughby]

Clock86aol [dot] com

 wrote on 10 December 2000: 


> Also, did I understand the manual to say the tellTarget is 

> less prefered than 

> the "with" command?  Can anyone give me a simple script for 

> using "with" 

> instead of tellTarget.  Or where to look for help?

> 

> thanks

> david


You don't need any 'with' or 'TellTarget' to perform a single operation

on a movieclip. In expert mode you can type stuff like:


_root.myMC1.gotoAndPlay(2);

_root.myMC2.gotoAndPlay(10);


The 'with' action lets you perform a number of operations 'with' a movie

clip or other object. It's all documented in the manual. Here's an

example: 


with (_root.myMC){

	_x = 250;

	_y = 150;

	gotoAndPlay(2);

}


However, on another list I was told that using 'with' is harder on the

player/processor than writing each action individually (like in the

first example) because it takes more CPU cycles. Also, 'with' has been

deprecated in the latest ECMA standard revision, so it may become

deprecated in the next version of Flash.

If you find yourself repeatedly having to set a whole bunch of similar

properties for an MC it might be better to write a function you can call

from the MC.


hth


paul


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