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[Goldlink Media]

I'm getting closer to figuring out how to get this project working right.

Although it's a contract that turned out to more complex than origanally

told, they have given me the opportunity to learn.  I know I have this list

to thank for me getting to keep this account and I really don't know how to

repay you all.  It's you that I've learned from and without your help, I

would of had to tell my client I don't know how to do their site.  I'm just

a beginner with Flash. I've paniced that no one could help fast enough but

you did.  You even came up with ideas to solve things temporarily until I

learned the more complicated ones.  I've seen help go accross the list for

other ppl that have solved my own questions.  The dolphin will have to wait

since I learned it has a tremendous amount of cosign whatever you call it

but I was given an alternate solution until I learn. I'll use trailing

dolphins for now. 


I can't thank you enough and I will be putting you in the credits on this

site, and our own company site when it's finished.  Macromedia, this list,

and everyone here that teaches small things and complicated things are very

much appreciated.  I really wanted to keep this account.


This is the one problem that I have for now that I think once it's solved,

I can put up a test site for critiques. 


I don't know how to get children of the main timeline to talk to each other.  


I've been to the FlashBible tutorial but I don't see where a child MC is

talking to another.  Here's my set up.


The main timeline has only actions, lables and full scene movie clips.  The

scenes on the main timeline are:


Home

Advertising

Contact Us

Home Team

Tour FNC

Service

Programming


Each one of the above movie clips is a full scene with other movie clips.

Inside each main scene they have the same layout, just different colors to

match the color theme for that particular department within the news

station.  The MCs are as follows for each:


Layer 1: MC: Title Bar 

Layer 2: MC: Arches

Layer 3: MC: Text Area

Layer 4: MC: Menu

Layer 5: footer (not an mc)

Layer 6: MC: Sunburst

Layer 7: background (not an mc)


Each of the above are all placed in frame 1.


The title bar is suppose to play, then the last frame should call the

Arches to play.  The arches when finished loading need to call the text

area to play.  The footer and background remain visible all the time.  The

menu tells the sunburst to play.  All the movie clips except for the

titlbar have a stop action in frame one and are invisible until frame 2.

The titlebar is invisible in frame 1 but plays immediatly then stops in the

last frame so it wont repeat the animation.  All the other MC's also stop

in last frame so they don't repeat.


The title bar plays perfect but it won't make the arches play next.  If i

put all the above on the main movie's timeline, they work perfectly. 


Home--->Scene------> title

                       ------->arches

                       ------->menu


aren't the title, arches, menu, etc children of Scene and grandchildren of

Home?  How do I make the children of Scene talk to each other?


Also, Buttons dont work in the menu.  I need the menu to talk to other MC's

in Scene, and to talk to other MC's in the main timeline where Home is.


There are no buttons on the main movie, only movieclips with buttons inside

them.


Sincerely,


Colleen Appleton

Goldlink Media





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