FLASH: Dynamically name MCs for Tell Target

[Hal Medrano]

Jeez, I thought this would be easy but I'm having trouble with the syntax.


I'm making a coloring book in Flash.  The user has 18 crayons to choose

from.  Each crayon is an MC with two frames: up and down.  When the crayon

is selected, it is up.  When the user selects another crayon, I want

whatever crayon is currently up to go to frame 1 (down).


What I need is for currentcrayon to set itself as a variable, so that I can

then target "currentcrayon" (whichever crayon it may be) to Go to Frame 1.

But I'm messing up the syntax and can't get it to work.


Anyone have a tutorial, or can just scribble out the code on the back of a

napkin, I'd be most appreciative.


Thenkew,




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Hal Medrano

New Media Group

U S WEST Creative Services


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