Re: FLASH: a question..

[Jim Curry]

Thanks for the ideas.  I had a feeling that these would be the answers.  I was

hoping for a simple way of doing it without adding "gree1...green2 etc.. But

I'll try it this way.

JC


John Croteau wrote:

> 

> Hi Jim,

> 

> > I would like to create a game for the holidays similar to a lite brite

> > game in which a players can choose the color of a light they want to

> > light up.  I envisioned a series of buttonclips commanded to change

> > colors and it works fine for one only.  When I diplicate them I can't

> >  get more than one to use.  I have named them all the same which is

> > probably my problem.

> Sounds like you answered your own question. Each Inastance normally

> should hava a destinct name. If you want to send multiple commands from

> the same Button or Frame Action. 100 Tell Targets at a time has been

> used in several projects. For instance I might have one action to be

> active but to shut down the previous action it might be easier to Park

> the 11 other options that to keep track of which one was the previous

> action.

> 

> > So the question is:  Can clips or buttons have the same name in the same

> > timeline?  i was hoping to do this so my ation call to tell target could

> > be simplified.  Or do I need a fscommand?

> FSCommand would have the same problem.

> There is an exception to having each MC having a unique Instance Name.

> 

> Say you have 3 Movie Clip's that you want to perform a different Action

> based on wht frame they are called from. So you name a Movie Clip in

> Frames 1-3 with the same Instance Name. Each of these Movie Clips will

> be available only in one frame so at any one time there is only one

> Instance Name with the same Name at a time. But there are actually 3

> different Instances (all with the same name) each performing a different

> Action which is based on where in the timeline you are.

> 

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