RE: FLASH: Ordering of Tell Targets

[Jason Bouwmeester]

Nathan,


In both examples I am accessing the exact same timeline. Nothing changes.

And yes the montage1 mc is available in the frame that the /:goTo jumps

to... I have a key frame in the first frame of the movie which has the

montage1 mc and then about 10 frames later one another layer I have a

keyframe with the label of the variable defined by /:goTo. Just curious as

to why it works the one way and not the other and what you said pretty much

what I surmised... but it still doesn't make much logical sense.


Thanks,

Jason


-----Original Message-----

From: Nathan Dicken [

nathandboxerjam [dot] com (mailto:nathandboxerjam [dot] com)

]

Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:13 AM

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Ordering of Tell Targets



Jason,


Seems like what's happening is that in your first section of code, the

playhead is advancing like it should to a label that is the value of

/:goTo.  However, once the playead advances to this frame (whatever the

value of /:goTo is), your montagel mc is not available in that frame.

Something that could also cause this is if the specific value of /:goTo is

not available as a label on the main timeline when you use Tell Target.

The timeline may then erratically play or jump to a label or frame that

doesn't have the montagel mc available.


In your second example, your main timeline is probably on a frame that does

have the montagel mc available so the first Tell Target does work, and

following that, your main timeline then proceeds to the /:goTo label after

the montagel mc is told to proceed.


Hope that helps...

Nathan


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Nathan Dicken

Boxerjam Inc.

100 Second St. NW

Charlottesville, VA 22902

nathandboxerjam [dot] com

www.boxerjam.com





>Hey everyone,

>

>We've come across an anomoly here and are trying to figure out the logic

>behind it. We have a main timeline with a movieclip called montage1 and a

>label called goTo. We are calling a script that is in a navigation

movieclip

>where we are placing all our scripts. Now for the interesting part:

>

>When we code it like this:

>

>Begin Tell Target ("/")

>     Go to and Stop (/:goTo)

>End Tell Target

>Begin Tell Target ("/montage1")

>     Go to and Stop (/:goTo & "Intro")

>End Tell Target

>

>we get an error message saying that it cannot find the target /montage1 BUT

>it does go to the label /:goTo

>

>Now, when we code it like this:

>

>Begin Tell Target ("/montage1")

>     Go to and Stop (/:goTo & "Intro")

>End Tell Target

>Begin Tell Target ("/")

>     Go to and Stop (/:goTo)

>End Tell Target

>

>it is able to see the target /montage1 and goes to the proper label (/:goTo

>& "Intro") and it goes to the label /:goTo as well. At the label (in this

>case tellMeIntro) there is a key frame in the actionscript layer but there

>is NO keyframe in the layer that contains the /montage1 movie clip.

>

>Any thoughts? Branden maybe? =0)

>

>Thanks in advance!

>

>jb



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