RE: FLASH: Message to list (and) Tell Target not working

[oliver b�hm]

At 10:08 25.11.99 +0000, you wrote:

>Sounds to me like your not getting the paths right.  When you have an MC

>within an MC you need to give the full path (ie. /mc1/mc2). So, when

>refering to MC2 from MC1 on the main timeline, you would say something like

>(in MC1);


I thuink that's not correct

you have to refer "/MC2"---- from MC1

In this case it's better 

to refer from the ground up like "_level0/MC1/MC2"

this is always correct and only alittle more textwritin which

of course spare debugging time in more complex situations.

Important:

All the target movieclips must stay reachable and loaded

when they target by a "Begin Tell target" action

hope that helps

oliver 










>Begin Tell Target ("/MC1/MC2")

>      Start Drag ("", lockcenter)

>End Tell Target

>

>

>Hope this helps.

>Have fun!

>:]me.

>

>> -----Original Message-----

>

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>> Sent:	Thursday, November 25, 1999 4:10 AM

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>> Subject:	FLASH: Message to list (and) Tell Target not working 

>> 

>.....

>

>> This is the one problem that I have for now that I think once it's solved,

>> I can put up a test site for critiques. 

>> 

>> I don't know how to get children of the main timeline to talk to each

>> other.  

>> 

>> I've been to the FlashBible tutorial but I don't see where a child MC is

>> talking to another.  Here's my set up.

>> 

>> The main timeline has only actions, lables and full scene movie clips.

>> The

>> scenes on the main timeline are:

>> 

>> Home

>> Advertising

>> Contact Us

>> Home Team

>> Tour FNC

>> Service

>> Programming

>> 

>> Each one of the above movie clips is a full scene with other movie clips.

>> Inside each main scene they have the same layout, just different colors to

>> match the color theme for that particular department within the news

>> station.  The MCs are as follows for each:

>> 

>> Layer 1: MC: Title Bar 

>> Layer 2: MC: Arches

>> Layer 3: MC: Text Area

>> Layer 4: MC: Menu

>> Layer 5: footer (not an mc)

>> Layer 6: MC: Sunburst

>> Layer 7: background (not an mc)

>> 

>> Each of the above are all placed in frame 1.

>> 

>> The title bar is suppose to play, then the last frame should call the

>> Arches to play.  The arches when finished loading need to call the text

>> area to play.  The footer and background remain visible all the time.  The

>> menu tells the sunburst to play.  All the movie clips except for the

>> titlbar have a stop action in frame one and are invisible until frame 2.

>> The titlebar is invisible in frame 1 but plays immediatly then stops in

>> the

>> last frame so it wont repeat the animation.  All the other MC's also stop

>> in last frame so they don't repeat.

>> 

>> The title bar plays perfect but it won't make the arches play next.  If i

>> put all the above on the main movie's timeline, they work perfectly. 

>> 

>> Home--->Scene------> title

>>                        ------->arches

>>                        ------->menu

>> 

>> aren't the title, arches, menu, etc children of Scene and grandchildren of

>> Home?  How do I make the children of Scene talk to each other?

>> 

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