Re: FLASH: Question 3 or is number 4?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 08:47 PM 5/23/99 -0700, you wrote:

>

>Have a button on a level to load a new level... BUT when I need to do back

>to another

>layer how do I:

>a. Jump to a specific point in that level? (Tell target?)


TellTarget (target: level1 or whatever)

	Go to and Play (frame: label: "labelname" -- always use label names, not

numbers, it's a good habit)

End TellTarget


>and now that I think about it...

>

>b. If I jump to a lower level will flash overlay that on to another level

>that is higher?


No.  Movies play on the level where they were loaded.  It is up to you to

arrange the content so it's not eclipsed by higher levels. you can do this

by telling higher levels to go to frames where there is a stop action and

no visible content (commonly referred to as a Park frame, or Parking the

Movie).



BTW, remember you can only successfully TellTarget a frame that has been

loaded.  This doesn't mean it has to have played (as in a movie that has a

stop action along the way). But things may hang up or buttons may appear

nonfunctional if you call a frame before its time.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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