FLASH: Basic Logic: Stop actions and Tell Target Question

[Jefferis]

So far, I have been mainly linear in my thinking and have not used the 

load movie features of Flash. I am following a long the tutorial for 

creating a popup menu, and the logic of part of the instructions escapes 

me. 


First of all, it says that in creating a button, in frame 1, it says to 

define it with the action

GoTo frame 1.  


However it doesn't say anywhere whether that should be Goto and stop or 

Go to an play.  

Aside from that, If the action is Go to Frame 1 and you are in the first 

frame, how will the button action allow you to advance to frame 2 where 

you have the multiple buttons' actions?


On a more general question: when loading movie clips in the same scene 

through button actions, you create a Tell Target  rather than a Goto 

frame or label - why? 

[this is from your tutorial John: 

http://www.FlashBible.com/members/MovieClips/AsScenes.htm].  Couldn't you 

just jump to the frame, start to play, and include a GoTo Frame 1 action 

at the end of frames for that MC?


Now in there, it doesn't really sense to me, why you include a stop 

action command at the End of each MC. I thought movie clips will only 

play IF you have allotted enough frames on the timeline for the movie 

clip to finish its cycle. At the end of the movie clip you include an 

action to go back to the Frame 1  [in my example] of the timeline where 

the menu is, so that the user can choose a different MC? BTW, I didn't 

understand the term Canvas Guide Layer... 


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