Re: FLASH: changing frame in main movie

[Robert Bleeker]

Hi Julie,


Make sure you do call the tell target before you unload the movie. And

remember it can only change to another frame within the same scene.

Probably use "/" if the target is the main timeline.


Robert


on 9/6/00 12:36 PM, julie gargan at

juliegkickmedia [dot] com

 wrote:


> I think I have seen this question before, but if so I have deleted the

> responses, so let me apologize if I am being repetitive.

> 

> What I have is a movie that loads another swf on top of it, and what I want

> to do is when I unload that swf I want the one behind it to go to a certain

> frame.  But, I can't figure out how to target the original swf.  I tried

> tell target: "/", "../", "main.swf" (each one at a different time

> obviously).  Nothing has worked.

> 

> How might I go about doing this?

> 

> Thanks.

> 

> -julie

> 



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