RE: tell target voodoo

[David Owen]

Thanks David


What you described is what I am seeing in my file. Knowing the

limitations of this function will help in using it.




DaveO



> ----------

> From: 	David Baldeschwieler

>

Reply To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Sent: 	Thursday, May 28, 1998 8:20 PM

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: 	Re: tell target voodoo

> 

> David,

> 

> The "Tell target" UI for button and frame actions is designed to

> display

> the instance names of targets that exhist in the timeline during the

> "lifetime" of that button or frame. So, to use your example:

> 

> Say you have a frame action on [layer 1, frame 10] which is a tell

> target, and you want to target a movie clip instance which is on

> [layer

> 2, frame 20]. If there is a keyframe on [layer 1, frame 15], then the

> "lifetime" of your keyframe with the action attached is from frame

> 10-14...  because at frame 15, that frame gets replaced by a new frame

> in the same layer. So therefore, it can not possibly ever send an

> action

> to something on frame 20. The same would be true of a button on [layer

> 1, frame 10]. The keyframe at frame 15 ends that button's "lifetime"

> on

> the timeline. Does that make sense?

> 

> However, in the same case, if you have a frame action on [layer 1,

> frame

> 10], and a target on [layer 2, frame 20], and you insert a frame on

> [layer 2, frame 15], the action on [layer 1] should STILL be able to

> see

> the target on [layer 2, frame 20], because the span of that [layer 1]

> frame action is not interrupted by another frame on [layer 1] before

> frame 20.

> 

> THis stuff is hard to explain over e-mail. I wish I could draw it out

> for you, but hopefully this makes sense. If you are still using the

> public beta, you MUST download the new FREE trial version from the MM

> web site or get the shipping Flash 3 CD, because there were several

> "Tell Target" bugs that were fixed post beta. If you are using the

> final

> version, and you still think you have a bug, send me an e-mail and

> we'll

> take it from there...

> 

> Something that's important to remember about "Tell Target" actions is

> that an instance which is not currently visible (beneath or left of

> the

> playback head in the timeline) can NOT recieve a tell target command.

> A

> target must be currently visible to the player/plug-in (although not

> necessarily to the end user) in order to recieve a tell target action,

> even if it is visible to the "Tell Target UI". 

> 

> Hope that helps!

> 

> -DB

> 

> 

> 


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