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Subject:	RE: FLASH: Tell Target vs. Everything in the timeline a la Director (WAS: Re: FLASH: swf vs. Tell Target question)
From:	Phillip Kerman
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 1999 06:10:07 GMT

Just to keep the thread intact, I reply below...

> Marc Hoffman wrote (in response to someone's questions):
>
> >
> > >2) link each button to separate movies in the same frame using
> Tell Target.
> >
> > I assume you mean movie clips, not movies. This is preferable when the
> > clips are not huge in filesize. It also allows them to share a
> library of
> > symbols.
> >
>
> (snip)
>
> >
> > >Also, if #2 from above is used, how do I deactive a movie clip that is
> > >playing after clicking on one of the other links?
> >
> > use a simultaneous Tell Target to send it to a labeled frame
> > (conventionally labeled "park") that has a stop action and no
> visible graphics.
>
> Ok, I've got a question about this stuff.
>
> I'm an old Director guy trying to rework my thinking into Flash.
> Is "Tell Target"
> akin to "puppetSprite" in Director-speak (lingo)? Also, what is
> the advantage of
> doing a "Tell Target" rather than have the Flash Movie go to a
> different frame
> marker with different info. I can still use the same library
> within the same
> Movie. For example, I'm working on a site at
> http://www.hyperionstudios.com/kevin/tower where I've got several
> sections of
> stuff and I did it all in one movie, one scene. (By the way,
> it's not done yet,
> but the shell is). Would "Tell Target" be a better way of going
> about this?

Tell target has nothing that I can think of to compare to PuppetSprite
(which has no use anymore anyway). But to compare it to Director, I'd say,
it's like a movie clip which you can address. In Director though, movie
clips are as useless as mult-frame "graphic" symbols.... "Movie Clips" (in
Flash) have two advantages (over flash "graphic" symbols) 1. They're frame
span is independent of the space in which you paste them (you can put a 10
frame clip in a 1 frame space)... and 2. The are "addressable" meaning you
can "tell" them to do things specifically.

Hope that helps!

Phillip Kerman

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