Re: FLASH: tell target. my head broke

[John Croteau]

Hi Rob,


> Using ../ in tell target is bad news, full stop, the same way it is in HTML.

Actually,   ..  other relative Tell Target paths work fine in Flash

without any problems, it is just many people get confused about relative

paths and therefore I suggest they use paths based on the main timeline

using the slash / for their general use. Also if you use a path based on

the main timeline (it starts with a /) then you can use the exact same

syntax any place in the movie.


> What you want to do is address all your target locations from the root,

> which is done by putting a slash before the target... so if something is in

> movie clip A, in level 0, the target would be:

>         _level0/B/A/

>         If you wanted it to get the main timeline to play, you could just

> use: / as the target.


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