Re: FLASH: Tell Target > Go to MC frame by label vs number

[Randy Smith]

Thanks Victor, it works. A great promise.


Cheri and Ted, both your methods behaved the same as many of my own trial

and error tests. They would play the movie clip from frame 1 up to the first

stop statement even though I was trying to target a label further down.


Although I'm just getting up to speed in Flash 4, I'm already anxious to see

actionscript improvements in version 5. There is plenty of room to grow to

make coding in Flash more intuitive. It should be an interesting release.


Have a great weekend all,

Randy


> Try this:

> 

> frameLabelToPlay="/anim_mc:anim_"&x&"_"&y

> 

> *Select Go To Expression... DON'T USE TELL TARGET, GO TO EXPRESSION DOES NOT

> WORK WITH TELL TARGET...

> 

> Go To and Play(frameLabelToPlay)

> 

> This way, u tell the target and the frame of that target to Go after the ":"

> as if it was a variable, but it's a label or a frame number for the Go To

> function.

> 

> It works, I promise... :)

> 

> Bye.

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> ----- Original Message -----

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From: Randy Smith <brsmith2aci [dot] on [dot] ca>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 1:06 AM

> Subject: FLASH: Tell Target > Go to MC frame by label vs number

> 

> 

>> Hi Folks,

>> 

>> Well I've rummaged around for an answer and tried messing with the syntax

>> but I can't seem to get it right. I'm starting to think it doesn't work

> this

>> way and that I'll have to do some math and reference the movie clips frame

>> by number instead of label.

>> 

>> I have a movie clip with 25 labels for example ...

>> 

>> label_1_1

>> label_1_2

>> label_1_3

>> ...

>> label_5_5

>> 

>> and I'm trying to Go To and Play a label in the movie clip from a variable

>> that has been concatenated in the main timeline. Leading up to this event

>> the variables x and y are set to numbers between 1 and 5.

>> 

>> Set Variable: "frameLabelToPlay" = "anim_"& x & "_" & y

>> Begin Tell Target ("/anim_mc")

>> Go To and Play( frameLabelToPlay )

>> End Tell Target

>> 

>> Anyway, my Director thinking doesn't work here. Is there a way to do this?

>> 

>> TIA,

>> Randy

>> 

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