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Subject: RE: FLASH: Can you ? : Tell Target > Go To mc frame > via variable
From: Victor Villen
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:59:32 +0100

Nono... Others posted the way GoTo Expression works with Tell Target (by
changing the reference to the variable the GoTo uses to the movie clip we
call in Tell Target). Simply I didn't know that issue :o)

Bye.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Smith <brsmith2ataci [dot] on [dot] ca>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Can you ? : Tell Target > Go To mc frame > via variable


> Hi Alex,
>
> If you've followed this recent thread that I started late Friday, Victor
> Villen set me straight. It appears you and I were trying to do something
> similar.
>
> "DON'T USE TELL TARGET, GO TO EXPRESSION DOES NOT WORK WITH TELL TARGET"
>
> The following should work. Don't forget the colon.
>
> Set Variable: "my_variable" = "/mc_animation:" & 10
> Go To and Stop ( my_variable )
>
> In the above case "10" could be substituted with a target label in the
movie
> clip that you concatenate together in another variable. In my case ...
>
> frameLabelToPlay="/mc_pitcher:curveball_"&x&"_"&y
> Go To and Play(frameLabelToPlay)
>
> In this case I've also changed the variable names to reflect why I was
doing
> this. (Sometimes it helps to know why we do what we do.) Its a baseball
game
> and the user chooses different pitches which are animated in the movie
clip.
> X and Y are grid locations in the strike zone.
>
> HTH,
> Randy
>
>
> on 6/25/00 7:53 AM, Construction at mailboxatkonstruct [dot] demon [dot] co [dot] uk wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Is this possible, or can you not specify a target frame as a variable
via
> > the expression box, only a number or label ?
> >
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Set Variable: "my_variable" = 10
> >
> > Begin Tell Target ("/mc_animation")
> > Go To and Stop ( my_variable )
> > End Tell Target
> > ---------------------------------------
> >
> > Context. I'm trying to target an mc to play forwards + backwards based
upon
> > some variable calculations. Hence the : Go To and Stop ( my_variable ).
> >
> > Thanks for any response.
> >
> > Alex.
> > _
> >
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> >
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