FLASH: MC's won't talk to each other...

[Matt Coyne]

There were 2 Movie Clips sitting on the same frame in a scene one day, when

a button in one of them says to the other, 'Hey "content" go to that label

called "sonicarts" in your timeline and play'. The other Movie Clip just sat

there doing nothing... 'I said hey, "content" got to "sonicarts" and play

willya!!'. And still the Movie Clip did nothing.


The Button tried 5 times to get the other Movie Clip to play for it but to

no avail. By this time the button was getting really edgy and decided to

list all the objects it could find. When it tried again to arouse the Movie

Clip all it got was; Target not found: Target="_level0/content"

Base="_level0/instance7" and when it looked up the list for the Movie Clip

it found; Movie Clip: Frame=95 Target="_level0/instance4".


The Button turned round really p***** off and said 'hey, "instance4"'. The

Movie Clip turned round and said, 'you talking to me?'...



...aarrrgggghhhhhh!!



Please excuse feeble attampt @ humour, but this is getting to me now.


I have, as you may have already guessed, 2 mc's on the same frame in a

movie. One MC is defined with the Instance Name, "content". Inside the other

MC is a button. The button has this script attached to it:


On (Release)

      Begin Tell Target ("_level0/content")

            Go to and Play ("sonicarts")

      End Tell Target

End On


it don't work...


When I use Test Movie, the List Objects window shows the discrepancy. The MC

I am targeting has not got the "content" Instance Name attached to it.

Instead it lists it as :


Movie Clip: Frame=95 Target="_level0/instance4"


If I change the script to:


On (Release)

      Begin Tell Target ("_level0/instance4")

            Go to and Play ("sonicarts")

      End Tell Target

End On


it works...


hmmm. please tell me if I have missed something glaringly wrong. my brain

don't work now, let alone the p*****g button.


BTW The movie is loaded onto level 4 of the original movie. But this is

happening when I test the movie on it's own as well as when it is loaded.


TIA

matt



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