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| Subject: | RE: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from abuttonin a movieclip |
| From: | Dorian Nisinson |
| Date: | Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:40:41 +0100 |
Just to be on the safe side, are you putting the actions to go to another
part of the movie in the button or in the instance of the button. If you
know this already just ignore the following:
Actions do not work when placed inside the actual button in symbol editing
mode. If you can see the four button states in the timeline, you are in the
symbol editing mode. You must put all actions in the instance of the button
on the stage in the main time line or in a movie clip.
You do this by double clicking on the button instance on the stage ( if
enable button actions is not selected in the Control menu) or going to
Modify/Instance with only the button selected, or by pressing Control-l (pc)
or Command-l (Mac). Then select the Actions tab and insert your actions.
To Tell Target from a button in a movie clip to the main timeline, all you
need is the /
Dorian
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner
chinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Ofifx
jps [dot] netSent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 4:04 PM
To: flasher
chinwag [dot] comSubject: Re: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from
abuttonin a movieclip
OK folks...this is getting serious. I still can't get it to work...and it
seems soooo simple, I must be missing something! I've gone over the code and
everything...line by line, symbol by symbol and I can't figure out why it's
not working. Let me start over in more detail..
I have some simple form elements on the stage (demo purposes only.. nothing
will actually get submitted to the server). I also have a simple submit
button on the stage that telltargets a 2 frame movie clip that plays a
"thankyou" message, with the thank you message being on the second frame of
the clip. I have a stop action on the first frame of the clip with no other
content. Along with the thankyou message in the second frame of the movie
clip.. I have an "ok" button. Now, I want the user to fill out the form, hit
submit... get the thankyou message, click "ok" and then have the frame head
n the main timeline go to another part of the movie...not just kill the
thankyou message. Are you with me so far...? So I placed the clip on the
stage and named it something like "thankyou".. and telltargeted it from the
"submit" button. Then I opened the movie clip and modified the button to the
following...
On (Release)
Go To and Stop ("/labelname)
End on
I didn't bother putting an action to kill the clip since it will just
disappear when the maintime line goes to the frame it's SUPPOSED to go to.
I have tried just using the label name with no forward slash...and the two
dots, ../ and it doesn't work. Interesting that when I test the movie.. it
kills the movie clip.. but stays in the same frame of the timeline.
Oh yea.. and I triple checked the name of my label to make sure it matches
the actionscript.
Wow, I hope someone can find the answer without me having to post this big
FLA... it's gotta be something I'm overlooking!
Thanks a bunch in advance!!
Alan
> From: ">>Dustin Krysak<<" <flash
vertca [dot] com>> Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:43:32 -0700
> To: <flasher
chinwag [dot] com>> Subject: Re: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from a
buttonin a
> movieclip
>
> you need the two ".." before the slash to target the main time line...
>
>
> ie ../
>
>
> if you were targeting the main timeline from a movie clip within a movie
> clip, then it would be
>
> ../../
>
> or say for example a movie clip targeting another movie clip on the main
> timeline, then it would be
>
> ../mc
>
> in a nut shell, the "../" (without quotes) will bring you up a level....
>
> dustin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ifx
jps [dot] net>> To: <flasher
chinwag [dot] com>> Sent: July 15, 2000 10:29 AM
> Subject: Re: FLASH: question on targeting the main time line from a
buttonin
> a movieclip
>
>
>> Very interesting... I put a forward slash before the label name but it
>> didn't work. Perhaps the error is elsewhere?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Alan
>>
>> W I L S O N - I N T E R A C T I V E
>> http://www.wilson-interactive.com
>> =================================
>> Every noble work is at first impossible.
>> -- Thomas Carlyle
>>
>>> From: "Karin Christensen" <karinc
ccosmo [dot] net>>>> Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com>>> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:03:20 -0700
>>> To: <flasher
chinwag [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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> flasher is generously supported by...
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> www.flashforward2000.com
> Produced by United Digital Artists and lynda.com
> Sponsored by Macromedia, Adobe Systems, Fusion, Inc, AtomFilms,
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flasher is generously supported by...
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flashforward2000 and the Flash(tm) Film Festival
July 24-26, 2000, NEW YORK CITY, Hammerstein Ballroom
www.flashforward2000.com
Produced by United Digital Artists and lynda.com
Sponsored by Macromedia, Adobe Systems, Fusion, Inc, AtomFilms,
shockwave.com and Electric Rain.
1.877.4.FLASH.4 or (1.805.640.6679 outside the US and Canada)
Register before June 30 and save $200!!-- www.flashforward2000.com
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July 24-26, 2000, NEW YORK CITY, Hammerstein Ballroom
www.flashforward2000.com
Produced by United Digital Artists and lynda.com
Sponsored by Macromedia, Adobe Systems, Fusion, Inc, AtomFilms,
shockwave.com and Electric Rain.
1.877.4.FLASH.4 or (1.805.640.6679 outside the US and Canada)
Register before June 30 and save $200!!-- www.flashforward2000.com
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