Re: FLASH: Movie Clip name in Tell Target?

[John Croteau]

Hi Jeff,


> I followed your basic Tell Target tutorial.

Not very well :-)


> The problem I'm having is finding the name of the MC  or adding it to the

> Begin Tell Target action in a control button.

You need to give the movie clip an Instance name.

In the Set-up Movie Clip Step it says:

  3) Give the instance of the movie an Instance name.

Steps 1 and 2 show you how to get to the Instance Properties dialog.

At times you will have to know the complete movie clip path for your

Tell Targets and enter by hand but not if you follow this tutorial step

by step.


> I your example, it shows the Numbers MC in the boxes to the right. I

> can't see a way of accessing it from my dialogs, even though it is

> clearly a symbol and and MC in my list of definitions.

We don't use the Library name of a movie clip but its Insttance name to

target it. When inseting a Tell Target action and you have Begi Tell

target highlighted the box on the upper right gives you a list of named

movie clip Instances that Flash has found. You can click to enter a

movie clip with its path (from the root) if it is there. If it is not

you can enter it manually. If it is not there you might not have named

it or or the movie clip is not locally available in the frame you are

setting the action or Flash just couldn't find it.


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