FLASH: MM, question..

[David Gary]

MM,


Well spending all night converting my movies from Flash2 to Flash3, Ive

learned a couple of things and of course questions arise.


I notice in movie clips that "goto and play" doesnt overide "stop" actions

in their own timelines.

What is the point of goto and play in the first place? Is it just for "tell

targets"

Why not just have "play"/label commands in those frame that you point to?


I find that "Goto and plays" wont overide "stop" commands in keyframes on

their own timeline, but they will from outside tell targets. Because of this

if I have a looping animation I have to add extra frames to the loop so it

studders an extra frame and then I have to apply an additional "loop" label

to point to and play after a "parked" frame that has a stop action at the

beg. of the animation. THis is needless as far as I can tell.  To be more

specific, I have a MC sitting on a layer in my main timeline. THere is a

"stop" action keyframe in its first frame labeled "park". Now, when I "tell

target" that MC to play with a "goto and play" (park),  it will play  as

told. However, when I have a "goto and play" at the end of the MC's timeline

with a "goto and play" command of its own to loop the animation it does NOT

overide the "stop" action. I also tried to "tell target" the MC from its own

timeline and this wont override the "stop" action either.


When your dealing with symbols that animate in conjuction with each other,

then

MCs are useless in some cases. When this occurs(quite frequently) "goto and

plays" _need_ to over ride "stop" actions.  In my experience, "goto and

plays" should hold seniority over any other command in Flash.


Maybe in F4, huh guys?


-DG-



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