Re: FLASH: Interesting tell target bug to watch out for...

[John Croteau]

Hi Rob,


> Just thought I'd share an interesting bug I've found with you..

> well, I don't know if you'd call it  a bug, but anyway:

It is a bug.


> When you're editing a movie inside another movie, and you apply a

> tell target command to a frame or button, I've noticed that when

> you use the window on the right to select the target, Flash 4

> always puts a / at the beginning, meaning to start looking for 

> it at the root level.

This is not quite correct.

Tell Targets for Movie Clips inside of Movie Clips will return correct

paths.


What will not work correctly is assigning a Tell Target inside of a

Graphic that has a Behaviour set to Movie Clip.


> This obviously won't work if you're already inside a nested MC...

If they are real movie clip symbols they will work, but if you have

Graphic symbols reassigned to Movie Clip Behavior then it will not work

right.


> you'l get a target not

> found error in the output window. To solve this problem, simply remove the

> /, or rewrite the path from the root level, i.e. if you've got an MC call

> "middle" inside another called "base", Flash 4 would assign the path

> /middle/target,

> whereas the correct path would be

> /base/middle/target

> or

> middle/target

When working with nested movie clips be sure all your movie clips are

really movie clips and not Graphic symbols acting like Movie Clips and

you won't have this problem.


This still doesn't explain why Flash doesn't find lots of good paths :-)


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