Re: FLASH: Controlling Movies Within Timeline Of Main Movie

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 10:04 AM 7/26/99 -0400, you wrote:... I have created seven movies,

placed them on

>frame one of their own layer in the main movie timeline.  How do I control

>without the use of buttons, the movies playing based upon the sequence I

>want. 


I assume you mean movie clips.


Double click each one on the stage, click definition tab (if not already

showing) and give it a unique instance name such as MC1, MC2, etc.


In the last frame of MC1 create a keyframe, double click it, select the

action tab, click on the plus (+) sign, select the action TellTarget. You

should see "/MC2" listed with all the other intance names. Double click it.

(Note that when a target is not on the same timeline, you will not see it

in this drop down list but you can enter its path and name.) Once you have

selected the target, you can choose the action "play."


This presumes that your movie clips have stop actions in their first frames

so that they're not playing by themselves. The exception is the first movie

clip, which will play by itself. When it's done it will tell MC2 to play.

Program MC2, MC3, etc., similarly.


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