RE: FLASH: Days of idiocy and utter frustration

[Len Harrison]

Thanks for the encouragement Marc and for the good advice John, also.

However, this is truly a day of idiocy or perhaps discovery (gee, never

realized that!). Last problem is solved and I think this is a flash

behavior, not a corrupted file or anything. Might be interesting or useful

to someone, particularly if it ever bites you.


Current system menu had plain blue text prompts and I decided they could do

with a bit of action so I added the previously mentioned motion-masked

effect to the text. Text and buttons come up through an alpha fade-in over a

few frames and nothing gets enabled until the fade is over. So I just did a

simple paste of movie clip text into the first and last keyframes of the

static text. Then I hooked the over and out states of the buttons to the

instance name of the new movie clips in the keyframe at the end of the

fade-in. **But I didn't give an instance name to the same clips on the other

side of the fade!**


After all, nothing was happening there. Didn't think I needed to. Didn't

think about it at all. Situation has never arisen before, but makes sense

now. I can be really dumb sometimes! Confusion arose because the instance

name is visible in the available targets. Tipoff was the only thing

different about the pasted version in the test movie was no fade-in.


Initially mentioned bug remains, however, including within simple test

files.


Thanks all for your indulgence of my fevered brain in somewhat tortured

progress,


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

Marc -- what does "perisoltice" mean? I know "soltice" but...


lh




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> Subject: Re: FLASH: Days of idiocy and utter frustration

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> Any ideas why an object would work if you cut

> >it from movie A and pasted it into movie B without making

> any changes to it,

> >when it wouldn't work in movie A? Maybe I got up too early?

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> >len harrison

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> Repeat after me:  "perisolstice psychosis...perisolstice

> psychosis...persisolstice psychosis"

>

> There is a reason people get crazy this time of year.  Relax,

> have a happy

> new year, Len, and thanks for all your great posts to this list.

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> Marc

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> Marc Hoffman

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