Re: FLASH: Aaaaarrrrggghhh!!!!! - Scenes are evil

[alexb]

First of all, scenes are NOT evil, they are a useful tool, you just have to

know how to deal with them. In your situation, look at it this way. A movie

clip cannot determine which scene it is currently playing in, which is why

it doesn't give you the option to select the scene when assigning a goto

action. The way to address your problem is to simply call a frame on the

main timeline. Create a frame anywhere in your main timeline, in any scene,

just make sure the frame won't be played during normal playback. (I've done

entire scenes full of scripts to be called and nothing else.) Give that

frame a label. In your movie clip, instead of putting the go to action, use

this:


Begin Tell Target ("/")

      Call ("frameToCall")

End Tell Target


(replacing "frameToCall" with the label of the frame you want to call)

What this will do is execute the actions on that frame without moving the

playback head.

Hope that helps,

alex beckett




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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:17:09 -0500

From:

Jason_Schubringaal [dot] org

Subject: Re: FLASH: Aaaaarrrrggghhh!!!!!  - Scenes are evil


>>I have a movie consisting of 5 scenes. In one of the scenes is an MC

>>which contains a button. How do I make the button tell the main movie to

go

>>to a specific scene (labeled in its first frame as Scene/2)



This may not be much help at this point, but use movie clips instead of

scenes

at all costs.  Scenes are pure evil.


If everything is stored as a labeled movie clip in the main timeline, you

can

tell target and access any properties of any of these clips.


If you can convert your scenes to MCs it would probably be a nice fix. If

not

that, maybe trying to create separate .swf files and using load movie would

help.


Good luck.


J


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