Re: [flasher] Making web site want to use MC's - need a bit of help please

[Karin Christensen]

The simpliest way to use and organized MC's is to have the first frame

blank with a stop action.  Then you can have as many MC's on the stage

at once with nothing showing.  Label the next frame of each MC and

tell target the MC that you want to play by telling it to go that

frame and play or stop.  For more complex movies I will put each MC in

a keyframe of its own on the main time line.  Sometimes it works

better depending on what I am doing to then tell the movie to go to a

frame which has the actions to target the MC.  This is helpful say if

you want a button to revert to a graphic state in that frame.


I agree with many of you about using MC's.  My movies can be very

complex animations but the main time line is one scene with maybe a

dozen frames or less.  Another advantage is if I want to use an

animation from one movie in another it is a simple process of dragging

the MC out of the library into the other movie library.


 Karin Christensen

Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

karinclinkline [dot] com

www.linkline.com/personal/karinc/



 Where I am hitting

> my head on the wall is using MCs.  I am able to call them up using a

tell target.  I am calling them into the lower 2/3ds of my stage

> so as to keep the upper area clear for logo, sub  links etc.  I find

that they pile up and I can see through them.  I tried putting a

> solid fill underneath each mc, but then I could only see the top

one.  I tried putting a fill in a frame on the main time line and

> using a go to an play before the tell target, but that did not

work - in fact it seemed to cancel out the tell target.  Is there a

way

> to unload one movie clip when you target another?  I will appreciate

any help you can give me.

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