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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Rapid TellTargets, Multiple MouseClicks crash Flash
From:	Brad Merritt
Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:11:23 GMT

>MY QUESTION
>What I would like to know is if others have had trouble with Flash seeming
>not to keep up with rapid series of commands. How about Flash crashing from
>too much MC activity at once? Are there situations where MCs aren't really
>keeping the same frame rate, so they get out of sync? By the way, I was
>not TellTargeting anything that was not already present on the timeline,
>but I wonder if a MC in action might not receive TellTargets reliably.
>Ideally, I would like to understand what it is about Flash's architecture
>and functioning that would cause these problems. This is my attempt to
>understand the inner workings of Flash, not just the rules for making Flash
>work, so that I can have a better basis for understanding similar problems
>in the future. Any insights would be welcome!
>
>Whew!!!
>
>
>Marc Hoffman

Marc,
I have run into that problem as well, and the fix was to make a movie clip
with button overlays as well.
I have recently made a game that totally relies on MCs playing in sync and
I have had no problems with that. I have found that if actions try to occur
in the split second between frames, they won't work (i.e. I put a button
in each frame of a 10 frame MC that looped over and over, each button had
an Onclick action. Sometimes when I clicked, the action would not work
because of the timing between frames)
I have also had problems with multiple frame commands in one frame, I had
to stretch them out over multiple frames to get them to work.
Some weird things happen, I just wishlist the people at MM everytime I find
something odd.

Brad Merritt

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