Re: FLASH: Flash 4 Targeting

[Kurt Dommermuth]

At 01:21 PM 10/9/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>hello

>

>

>I have a flash piece with and embedded movie clip is there a way to have a

>button in the movie clip to tell flash to go to a frame or label on the main

>frame line or to another movie clip not embeded with tis one???

>Thanks

>

>

>Justin Barta

>703-917-6251


Hi Justin,


If I understand you correctly, then Yes, you can "target" the main timeline 

and other movie clips from anywhere.


I'm certain there must be reasonably good info on this in the manual, but 

here is a quick rundown...


(Also, though "tellTarget" will work in Flash 4 and 5 it will probably not 

be used in future versions of Flash.  It is being deprecated in favor of 

"dot syntax")


Anyway....


The following code snippet will tell the main timeline to go to and play 

frame 10 from either a button in the main timeline or a button in a movieclip.


**********************

on (release) {

     tellTarget ("/") {

         gotoAndPlay (10);

     }

}

**********************



or if you are targeting a frame label...



**********************

on (release) {

     tellTarget ("/") {

         gotoAndPlay ("frame_label");

     }

}

**********************



to target specific movie clips, add the movie clip's name...(this is using 

an absolute path, you could also use a relative path.  for more info see 

the manual)  It is also assuming that the MC "movie_clip" is on the main 

timeline (and not nested in another movie clip).



**********************

on (release) {

     tellTarget ("/movie_clip") {

         gotoAndPlay (10);

     }

}

**********************


or to target the main timeline in the "main" movie from another .swf loaded 

into a higher level...


**********************

on (release) {

     tellTarget (_level0) {

         gotoAndPlay (10);

     }

}


HTH,

Kurt

http://www.dommermuth-1.com



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