Re: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from a buttonin a movieclip

[ifx]

Very interesting...  I put a forward slash before the label name but it

didn't work. Perhaps the error is elsewhere?


Thanks!

Alan


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From: "Karin Christensen" <karincccosmo [dot] net>

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Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:03:20 -0700

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from a button in

> a movieclip

> 

> You need to use tell target.  Type in a forward slash (/) for the main

> time line in the target box, then you can select the go to button.

> When you used to go to label directly you were trying to tell the

> timeline of the movie clip to go to the labeled frame.

> Karin

> 

>> Hi gang,

>> 

>> I must be tired... because I can't get this one to work....and it

> seems so

>> simple. I have a button within a movie clip. When the user activates

> the

>> button... I want to send the main timeline (not the movie clip

> timeline) to

>> a certain labeled frame. So I opened the movie clip, selected the

> button and

>> went to modify instance...did the mouse over event on release...

> then select

>> label but the pulldown isn't working...so I type in my label name.

> Test the

>> movie...nothing. I'm assuming I have the wrong path so I am unclear

> on what

>> the correct path "back" to the main timeline from a clip would be.

> Any help

>> would be awesome!

>> 

> 

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   Produced by United Digital Artists and lynda.com

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