Re: FLASH: Q: Return to referring frame

[Chris]

halitospeakeasy [dot] org

 wrote:


> Hi all,

>

> I'm designing an interactive product demonstration.  It simulates a

> palm-pilot type of device: click a button, go to a frame and stop.  It's

> about an 80-frame demo with just a couple of movies as symbols, no Load

> Movies, a few Tell-targets, nothing particularly difficult.

>

> The prob: present throughout the demo is a "help" button which takes you to

> "Help" screen.  The "Help" screen has a "return" button on it.  The return

> button is supposed to take you back to whatever frame referred it.  In

> other words, if I clicked "help" from frame 30, the "return" button is

> supposed to take me back to frame 30, but if I clicked "help" from frame

> 10, the "return" button has to take me back to frame 10.  How do I make the

> button understand where it's supposed to go? I have a feeling there might

> be an FS_Command way to do this (Tell target method?).  I can't figure out

> how to do it with actions.  Can anyone help me out?


I'm not a 100% Flash technician, but I'm guessing what you'd do, instead of

jumping to a different frame for the 'help' button, you'd have your help

button be a symbol imbedded with your help information and soforth, containing

the movie orwhatever contains all your help info into the one symbol. Then

when clicked , it's always there. You won't be jumping around frames, it will

be just one instance of the help button. I hope this is understandable,

someone more technically minded could probably explain this better.  ... but

it would be nice to have a 'Play' and 'Play Done' event like Director.



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