Re: FLASH: How to make button in movieclip access a frame outside the clip in the movie

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 10:18 AM 12/18/99 , you wrote:


>I have a symbol that is a movie clip.  This symbol contains another symbol

>which is a button.  I want to make it so that when someone clicks the button,

>it goes to a frame in my main movie, not in the movie clip.  What action

>commands do i put on the button?


On (Release)

         TellTarget (target: /)

                 Go to and Play (or Go to and Stop)

                         frame (label: label_name)

         End TellTarget

End On


If this syntax does not make sense, click on the button instance, select 

the Action tab, and as you start selecting the above actions all the 

options will unfold and hopefully will make sense.


The forward slash is the target designation for the main timeline. (For 

future reference: You can extend the path to include movie clip instance 

names and add forward slashes to target a lower level clip within a clip.)


label_name is whatever name you give to the main timeline frame where you 

want playback to jump to. You could just specify a frame number, but labels 

are much better since they don't change the way frame numbers do if you add 

or delete earlier frames.


By learning to use TellTarget you are on the way to extending your Flash 

capabilities tremendously. Have fun.

Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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