Re: FLASH: controlling two tell targets....

[Thomas S. Bilz]

Hi Sarah,


I'm knew to this list, but I think there is a very easy solution to 

your problem.

Why don't you save the state of your buttons and movies in some 

variables. With these variables you can make decision about the

further up and down of your telltargets. 


Perhaps this could help,


Thomas


Sarah Lamont wrote:

> 

> hello everyone...

> 

> okay, I have a question, and it's something I've been trying to figure

> out for sooo long, and I have tried to ask the list about it before, but

> I still haven't managed to come up with the right answer. I would

> appreciate any help, and I'll try to explain what I mean as best as I

> can. (The main problem is the fact that I have a very limited knowlege

> of coding... but I'm getting better, I swear! :)

> 

> anyhoo...

> so this is the problem:

> I have 3 buttons on a page. Each button controls a tell target, that,

> when pressed, grows out and displays information. Clicking on the same

> button again calls the same tell target, and causes it to play again,

> which makes it appear to shrink, since, after it grew the first time, I

> put a "stop" action, where it stayed until the button was pressed a

> second time, causing the end of the tell target to play, which was the

> shrinking part.

> Now, my problem is that I don't want two telltargets to be grown out at

> the same time on the page. So I need to find a way to make each button

> on the page not only control the telltarget attached to it, but also the

> other ones on the page. Is there a way to do this? What I mean, is that

> I feel like there is a way with an If, then statement to do this? Like,

> If tell target #1 is at frame 19 (which is the middle, where the Stop

> action is) then play that and this tell target. Does anyone know what I

> mean???

> I know there has to be some way to do this, I think I need to know the

> correct syntax to make it work. Please  help me!

> thanks so much,

> :]sarah

> 


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Thomas Bilz                                       cand. phys

bilzor [dot] uni-bonn [dot] de

         Forschungsinstitut fuer Diskrete Mathematik

    der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet Bonn

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