Re: FLASH: Flash: how can i play movies (symbols) one after another in a scene?

[Karin Christensen]

You need to learn the basics of tell targeting.  Briefly you need to

give each movie clip an instance name.  Put each on it's own layer.

At the end of each mc put a tell target action to tell the next movie

to play and for the current movie clip to stop (or go back to the

beginning and stop or what ever you want it to do).  Each movie clip

should have a stop action in the first frame.  Then you can tell

target it to go to the next frame and play.

One thing to watch for is that you can not tell target a movie clip if

it does not exist in the frame that play head resides.  If the movie

clip is down the timeline in a new keyframe you cannot tell target it.

One other way to do this is have each mc in a new keyframe with a stop

action then at the end of each mc tell target the main time line to go

to that keyframe where the next mc will start to play.  You still need

to put stop actions at the end of each mc.

There are alot of ways to set it up depending on what you are trying

to accomplish.  Once you play around with tell targeting it will make

more sense.

Karin


> Hi there, i have the following Flash prob. I made 7 movie clips as

> symbols. How can i play them one after another ain my scene?

> When i drag them in the scene only the first one plays and loops

> forever....any help?

> thanks.

>




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