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

[Louis L. Gambogi III]

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Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:50 AM

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



> 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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