RE: FLASH: <<<<tell target in mc problem>>>>>

[Chad Kraeft]

ie. you have to have something to duplicate.


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Subject: Re: FLASH: <<<<tell target in mc problem>>>>>



Ted,


The mc that you want to duplicate "into" is empty as you described, so

therefore, you can't duplicate something inside of it because it is empty.

The duplicate function works when you are duplicating in a mc that your

target mc (the target used in the Duplicate MC command) is in.  In other

words, if you were telling the main timeline to have "/mc1" duplicate

"/mc2" inside of it, then "/mc2" must be inside "/mc1" before you use the

Duplicate MC command...  Make sense?   Hope this helps - if you have any

questions just let me know.


Nathan






>I think I stumble on this all of the time. So if my main timeline has but

>a single frame which has a bunch of embedded movie clips, the timeline

>plays the one frame and stops but all of the movie clips of course keep

>looping. Now if one of those clips tries to load another movie clip into

>an empty movie clip in that first frame, it doesn't work. If it loads

>another movie clip into a level, it works fine. Is the problem that the

>main timeline containing the empty clip is stopped?

>

>Ted Henigson

>

>> Something important (which can be overlooked easily sometimes) to

>> make sure

>> about is if the mc that you're targeting is available in the playhead

that

>> that timeline is on.  For example, if you have clip1 (mc with the buttons

>> in it) calling clip2 (mc with instance name "clip2"), and they're both on

>> the main timeline, then your playhead needs to be in a frame

>> where clip2 is

>> accessible.  This would be more important in a situation where say, clip1

>> is buried down in few mc's and clip 2 is on the main timeline.

>>

>> Other than that, just make sure that your instance name is named

correctly

>> and the same in the script calling that instance.  Sometimes it

>> may be easy

>> to have a space or something at the end somewhere or something like that

>> that can throw everything off...

>>

>> Hope that helps...

>> Nathan Dicken



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