Re: FLASH:Menu asking

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 03:35 AM 1/24/00 , you wrote:


>At the moment on one and the same movie clip I have the film and and the

>photos. Later in the same movie clip I have layers that contain the

>enlarged photos. I want when a picture is clicked it comes out but when

>I start draging the movie up and down I want the photo to disappear. I

>thought that if I make an invisible button over the film which says to

>go to the 1 frame ot any other frame. But in that way the movie will be

>rescrolled in its first position and I do not want that.


You can make separate movie clips in which the photos get larger. Give them 

each a frame where there is no photo and there is a stop frame. Put these 

movie clips inside the menu movie clip and use TellTarget to make them play 

or to park them (that is, to move them to the blank, stopped frame). I know 

you do not want the larger movie clip to return to frame 1. You may have to 

give it a frame where it is still opened up (not rescrolled) but where the 

invisible button does not appear, so that users can click on another item. 

The basic idea here is that when you want an animation to be independent of 

the timeline where it is placed, you put it in a movie clip so it can run 

independently using TellTarget.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

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