RE: FLASH: Message to list (and) Tell Target not working

[Gavin Prior]

Sounds to me like your not getting the paths right.  When you have an MC

within an MC you need to give the full path (ie. /mc1/mc2). So, when

refering to MC2 from MC1 on the main timeline, you would say something like

(in MC1);


Begin Tell Target ("/MC1/MC2")

      Start Drag ("", lockcenter)

End Tell Target



Hope this helps.

Have fun!

:]me.


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Goldlink Media [SMTP:webboardgoldlink [dot] com]

> Sent:	Thursday, November 25, 1999 4:10 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject:	FLASH: Message to list (and) Tell Target not working 

> 

.....


> 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?

> 



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