Re: FLASH: tell target problems

[Marc Hoffman]

At 12:45 PM 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote:

>So, at the end of the first movie clip (in the last frame), I attached

>the following actions:

>stop

>begin tell target

>end tell target

>then I target the instance name of the second movie clip like this:

>/kookoo. 

<SNIP>

>what happens is that the sounds just play over each other.  The second

>movie clip doesn't wait until the first movie clip finishes

>playin


Hi Kristin.


Your second clip should have no graphics in the first frame and should have

a stop action in the first frame.  Then your action at the end of the first

clip should look like this:


Begin TellTarget

	Target: /kookoo

	Play

End TellTarget

Stop


This presumes the first clip ends in a frame that is empty of graphics,

unless you want some of it to continue to show (or unless it is completely

obscured by the second clip).


You can also do this by placing the clips in sequential keyframes on the

main timeline and targeting the main timeline to play on when each clip is

done.  Then the action in the last frame of the movie clip is:


Tell Target

	Target: ..

	Play

End TellTarget


(where ".." refers to the main timeline, or whatever timeline the movie

clip is nested in).


If sound playing on is a problem, in the final frame of the first clip,

select the sound that's been playing and set Sync to "stop." Or select the

action "stop all sound" before proceding to the next clip.




Marc Hoffman

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