Re: FLASH: tell target problems

[John Croteau]

Hi Kristin,


> When the user comes to a frame, I want a movie clip to play that

> runs 15 frames.  It is a clip of text fading in with music.  AFTER that

> clip plays, I want another animated movie clip to play.

> So, at the end of the first movie clip (in the last frame), I attached

> the following actions:

> 

> stop

> begin tell target

> end tell target

> 

> then I target the instance name of the second movie clip like this:

> /kookoo.  Both of these movie clips are sitting in the same frame, but

> in different layers on the maintime line.

> what happens is that the sounds just play over each other.  The second

> movie clip doesn't wait until the first movie clip finishes

> playing........  why, oh why is this happening?

If they are in the same frame (even yhough on different layers they will

play at the same time. Plus you need an action for the tell target to

do.

Put your MCs in different frames a stop action in the first.


In the last frame inside the first MC put:


begin tell target         Target: /

    Go to Next Frame

end tell target


So what happens is the movie goes to the frame where the first MC is

finds a Stop action there. Thr MC starts playing and when it gets to its

end it has a Tell target that directs an action to the main timeline (/)

and that action is to go to the Next Frame (on the main timeline) where

your second MC is.


Though layers load one at a time (top to bottom or vice versa) all

layers once loaded exist at the same point in time (based on the

timeline).


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