Re: FLASH: back button to movie clip label

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:04 AM 3/27/00 , you wrote:


>Does the movie clip "square" still exist in frame 6?  If you have an

>empty keyframe for the square mc at keyframe 6 then you can't tell

>target it's timeline.  Otherwise it should work.



This is correct advice. A better way to accomplish what you want is to have 

both clips exist throughout the timeline and to use TellTarget to send them 

to the frame where you want them to be. This could include a "park" frame 

(stopped, blank frame).



>Karin Christensen

>Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

>www.cosmoaccess.net/~ivyacres/

>

> > hello everyone,

> >

> > i have been having problems and i need some help.

> >

> > i have 2 movie clips one in frame 5 and one in frame 6 . within the

>frame 6

> > movie clip i have a back button.  and when the back button is

>pressed i need

> > to go back to the frame 5 movie clip, but i have to go to a specific

>frame

> > within the movie clip.

> >

> > When the back button is pressed the playback head goes to the

>beginning of

> > the frame 5 movieclip and plays the movieclip from beginning to end,

>but  i

> > want the playback head to jump to a label named 'back' in the middle

>of the

> > frame 5 movieclip.

> >

> >

> > this is the actionscript i have on the back button, but i cannot

>nest tell

> > target commands...

> >

> > On (Press)

> >       Begin Tell Target ("../")

> >             Go to Previous Frame

> >       End Tell Target

> > End On

> > On (Release)

> >       Begin Tell Target ("/square")

> >             Go to and Stop ("back")

> >       End Tell Target

> > End On

> >

> > please help

> > thanks

> > dee



Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash Animation and Digital Audio Production

Featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com



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