FLASH: Re: Tell Target not working properly!?! Need help!

[Bob Shuster]

I must be missing something obvious, but I've spent two days trying 

to get this working and it's driving me nuts.  I just know it has 

something to do with how I'm addressing the variables!


Here's what I'm trying to do - I have a movie clip in my swf called 

"progressMC".  progressMC is a progress bar with 100 frames where the 

bar itself is tweened from left to right over that 100 frames.  On 

another layer in that MC, I have a stop action on each frame.


Then on the main level I have the following actionscript:


Frame 01:   (set percentage to preload at 75%)

    Label: stop

    Set Variable: "targetFrame" = _totalframes * 0.75


Frame 03:  (calculate how much of desired preload has loaded and tell 

progressMC to go to that frame)

    Label: check2

    Set Variable: "percent" = int ( _framesloaded / targetFrame ) * 100

    Begin Tell Target ("/progressMC")

       Go to and Stop (percent)

    End Tell Target

    End If


Frame 05: (loop back to Frame 03 unless desired preload amount has 

been reached)

    Label: <none>

    If (percent >= 99)

       Go to and Play ("start")

    Else

       Go to and Play ("check2")

    End If


Frame 07: (actual start of content)

    Label: start


I think my programming is good, but for some reason it's just not 

working.  It preloads 75% then jumps to "start" but the progress bar 

never moves.  As I said, I suspect there is something wrong with my 

variables in the


Set Variable: "percent" = int ( _framesloaded / targetFrame ) * 100


line in Frame 03.  I've tried lots of permutations on this but nothing works!


I also tried:


Frame 03:

    Label: check2

Set Variable: "percent" = int ( _framesloaded / targetFrame ) * 100

If (percent > oldpercent)

       Begin Tell Target ("/progressMC")

             Go to Next Frame

       End Tell Target

       Set Variable: "oldpercent" = percent

End If


which also didn't work.   Help!   :)    - Bob Shuster

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