Re: FLASH: ****syntax is weird****

[Randy Kato]

David,


I just recreated what you have and it works fine. Are you sure your instance

names are correct?


You can also achieve this more directly with:


on (release) {

    _root.clip2._visible = 0;

}


HTH,

Randy



David Wallach wrote:


> or its just ME thats weird

>

> two movieclips, both on the main timeline. button in movie 'clip1' to set

> visability of 'clip2'

>

> the problem is in the path....   if I use

>

> on (release) {

>     setProperty ("../clip2", _visible, 0);

> }

>

> //it works fine, but if I use the new path convention of....

>

> on (release) {

>     setProperty (_root.clip2, _visible, 0);

> }

>

> it hides clip1!!! the clip with the button in it!!!

>  what gives? It must be something obvious that I am overlooking,  but having

> done this very simple thing in flash4 about a bazillion times, I cannot

> figure out why its broke.


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