Re: FLASH: Dynamically name MCs for Tell Target

[Jon Williams]

Just make the target of your "Tell Target" an expression,

and drop in "currentcrayon" as the target.

currentcrayon will need to be a string and will need to follow

the same rules for targeting as a raw string, so you might need

to append a path. for example.


if the full path to the red crayon is "/palette/colors/red"

and currentcrayon contains "red" then you need to target like so:

"/palette/colors/" & currentcrayon

or, you need currentcrayon to contain the full path.


-jon


Hal Medrano wrote:


> 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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