Re: FLASH: Menu movie troubles.

[John Croteau]

Hi Kris,


> The menu is a movie symbol which has other button symbols inside it and

> an animation that is triggered from a button in the first frame (which

> is stopped) to slide the menu up from it's starting position.

> In the main scene I've got a seperate layer for the menu and made a key

> frame at the start and put the menu movie symbol in this keyframe.  The

> menu movie symbol has a target name of menuMovie by the way.

> Ok, so when I play the .swf file, the menu button is where it should be

> and does all it's animations etc correctly but none of it's buttons

> (which goto and play labels in the main scene of the primary movie)

> work.  It looks like the commands are only going to the menu movie. If I

> make a label inside the menu movie and assign a button to go to it, it

> works fine, but if I try to get a button to work with a label in the

> primary movie/scene it seems to send the menu movie back to it's first

> frame without going to the correct label in the primary movie/scene.

To communicate between different timelines (a movie clip has its own

independent timeline).  The main timeline is refered to as / so:


Begin Tell Target ("/")

      Go to and Stop ("Option1")

End Tell Target


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