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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Need Help with Tell Target Command
From:	Daniel Votino
Date:	Sat, 9 Jan 1999 00:16:08 GMT

Dorian. Wow! Great way of explaining it! Thanx again!

~Daniel

>It is a bit confusing. You are correct about the parent movie at
>_level0 is the one in charge. Think of it as the main floor in an
>apartment building. The movies it loads to levels are the upper floors.
>_Level1=first floor, _Level2=second floor. etc. And the viewer of this
>flash creation is looking down on the building from above. If you think
>of the floors as made of glass and anything put on the floor as the art
>or type, you will see that a rug placed on the 10th floor (_level 10)
>will cover up and make invisible a chair or a table on floors 9 through
>0 (_llevel0 through 9)
> Now movie clips are the children of the movie in which they are placed.
>You can have nested movie clips too, so that a movie could have children
>and grandchildren and great grand children, etc. That means a movie clip
>(child movie clip) on the timeline of the main movie can contain other
>movie clips on its timeline that would be the grandchildren and those
>grandchildren can in turn contain movie clips and those would be the
>great grandchildren.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>Dorian
>
>Daniel Votino wrote:
>>
>> Dorian
>> Thanx for the great tutorial.
>> I am a bit unsure about a few things still.
>> I know the Main Movie that dictates all other loaded movies fps
background
>> and such is the "Parent" movie at level0.
>> What exactly is a child?
>> Is a "child" movie all the movie clips inside the parent or all the
movies
>> loaded at higher levels? Or is it both?
>> It seems confusing to me still. Thanx
>>
>> ~Daniel
>>

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