Re: FLASH: Need Help with Tell Target Command

[Marc Hoffman]

At 07:02 PM 1/7/99 -0800, you wrote:

>    In short, I want a child movie's button loaded on level two to use a

>sound from a child movie formerly loaded on level 1 as its hit button sound.

>Is this possible?


Hi Daniel.


I share some of John C's confusion, but think I  get the idea of what you

want to do.  You have a sound in the movie loaded on level 1 and you want

to make it play from level 2 or some other level.  you'll need to put that

sound in a frame (simplest to put it in a frame within a movie clip) in the

movie on level 1.  you can't target the sound, you have to target the frame

where it occurs.  let's say you put it in a movie clip that is present on

the stage of level1 movie, and you've assigned the clip an instance name of

"sound." the structure of the clip is such that it's stopped in its first

frame, which has no sound, but the sound is present in the second frame

which also has the frame label "play."  There's no stop in frame 2, so if

the clip goes to frame 2 it plays the sound and goes to frame 3, which has

an action that sends it back to frame 1.  Okay, that's the clip.  Now, in

the movie of level2 you have a button.  On the stage you assign it an

instance action.  here's the action:


On MouseEvent (rollover)

  Begin TellTarget (target should read: _level1/sound)

    Go to and Play (frame:  label: play)

  End tellTarget

End MouseEvent


I know this is complex, but it's pretty basic to using Load Movie and

TellTarget.  And it makes particular sense in your case, where you have a

sound (which can hog filesize) that you want to share among movies.  Too

bad you can't share libraries, but Flash doesn't work that way.



Marc Hoffman

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