RE: Tell Target? & thoughts on Flash

[Judy Miller]

Hi Christian,

I spent I don't know how many weeks reading the manual, surfing the web,

asking questions, losing hair, ripping hair getting thoroughly frustrated

and then....I started playing.

>From what I can tell so far, and I might be wrong BUT instead of using

another frame, use load movie command and then tell target to go where you

want to go within that movie. you can create blocks of any size and get

really creative using load movie, much more so than using frames, and you

would really only have the initial html plage to deal with and then deal

with loading new movies as long as all the movies are placed within the same

folder.

You can even go further and place movies within movies. What I am working on

now, is creating my colour wheel theory lessons. It is a movie and each

scene will play a movie that is inside the colour wheel's library as a

movie.


That probably doesn't make any sense. Okay, one lesson is called glazing

colour and it is a movie clip inside the library. one scene in the colour

wheel movie will load that movie clip.


The whole colour wheel and it's group of movies will load in as a single

movie within the main site. So within my main site will be a section called

colour theory. That will load in the colour theory set of movies. For that

section, it takes up the whole screen, so I will have a back to main menu

button, but there is no reason why you couldn't have a main menu showing at

all times without frames.


So basically you can use load movie to load main sections and then tell

target within the main sections to load movie clips. This I believe is but

only one way to do this.


Ken was asking the other day what we would like to see in his new book. I

want to see advanced concepts of how to construct sites in Flash. From what

I can see, there are numerous ways to skin a cat here, and there are bound

to be ways that are move efficient than others.


An example of this is when I created my sliders, They worked great, thanks

to Dave, but when I used them to actually tween the glazes,it started

choking and I used many stages for each button. I tried to turn the sliders

into tweens instead but then the movie wanted to play as a movie instad of

as tweened buttons. Then late last night, it came to me, that instead of

having each button sequence loaded into one frame, that I can create a movie

clip of a tweened slider, and then load that as a button into the main

movie. At least I think that will work.


I am just starting to play with this. It has only been a couple of weeks and

I feel like I am just on the brink of something wonderful. There seems to be

tons of hidden capabilities in this that are not so apparent when you first

use it, but I do believe that


So now, this got the wheels turning and I have a question...

How does one know whether they are better off creating movie clips to play

within a movie with a tell target command, or whether to load it in as a new

movie all together with a load movie command. It must have something to do

with a balance between load time and organising efficiently....??????

Judy Miller

Fall River Decorative Arts

http://fallriver.ns.ca

judyfallriver [dot] ns [dot] ca (mailto:judyfallriver [dot] ns [dot] ca)

> can anyone point me in the right direction for info on TELL TARGET.

>

> I amusing a movie clip with embedded buttons as a navigation device but

> want the button to send the movie off to another frame in another scene.

> Have had a look on the MM site and even read the friggin manual, still

> can't see how it all works.

>

> nothing on Flash central that I could see yet...

>

> Anyone???

>

> any help much appreciated.

>

> Christian Cook



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