Re: FLASH: Unexpected button refusal (for Karin)

[Chris de Deugd]

Hi Karin,


I tried it out this morning and it worked!! It was exactly as you

described and in fact it's really quite logical.. Thanks again!


Chris



Karin Christensen wrote:


> The actions for that button in the loaded swf may need to have the

> instance name of the target mc included in the pathways.  This is the

> usual reason why an action of any sort doesn't work in a load into

> target.  When you load into targe, the swf is sort of a child of the

> mc that was targeted.

> Say your target mc is named blank.  In the swf you have an action that

> targets another mc or the swf timeline.  You would have to edit the

> action for that button something like this.

> go and play (/blank/another_mc)

> What can help you is to test the movie under control/test movie, when

> your swf is loaded in the target go to view > list variables.  There

> you will see were the mc name has been added into the pathways.  They

> need to be referrred to that way in your swf in order to work.  I

> found it to be somewhat variable as to when and where you need to do

> it.  I had a problem with drop_targets and some score setting

> variables, yet other things worked fine.  I'm certain there is a firm

> rule about when you need to adjust the pathways.

> Karin

>


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