RE: FLASH: Get Property in Specifice Frame

[Larry Eisenstein]

Hi All,


Thanks Cheri, I'm still having problems

I think I didn't make it very clear what

I was trying to do...so here goes.


Parent MC "GuyOne" has a child MC "Hand"

In MC "Hand", frame 4 (labeled 'Punch'),

I placed a graphic symbol 'RightHand'.

I changed 'RightHand's behaviour to MC.

I named the instance "RightHandPunch".


I want to get the x position property

of "GuyOne/Hand/RightHandPunch" when

frame 4, (labeled 'Punch')is played.


I then want to compare this property

with the position of other MC's on the

stage. Some even embedded in

other MC's like the above.


I tried some of your suggestions but

remain confused. Should I abandon turning

the graphic symbols in specific frames

into MC's. Or is this the way to get their

properties to make comparisons and then

issue Tell Target commands.


I need this type of collision detection

power to make my game work.


Thanks for your help, Sorry If I'm asking

you to repeat yourself.

Larry



>Larry wrote

I want to get the x position of frame in MC /Hand


>Cheri Harder wrote


If I understand your question....you want to get the x position of a certain

"child movie clip" when it is at a specific frame of its action within

another movie clip?


Like you have a "Cat" movie clip on the main timeline, and a "Tail" movie

clip within it.  You want to find out the x position of the tail at frame 4

of the Cat movie clip?


You will need to have the Tail send its position, not go get it.  That is,

in frame 4 of the cat movie clip, do a Set Variable "TailPos" =

(GetProperty(Tail,_x)) then you can get the variable from anywhere.  (Refer

to it as /Cat/:TailPos)


You can't get at it the other way around, as it is a "moving target" so to

speak.


I think where you have seen frames referred to with colons, (like in

"/MovieClip/:framename") is in a Call statement - that refers to the frame

actions of a specific frame (labelled "framename") within the MovieClip

instance.


HTH


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 8:28 PM

Subject: FLASH: Get Property in Specifice Frame



> Hi all,

>

> Is it possible to Get Property the x position of

> a movie clip inside a specific frame of a parent

> movie clip. I've seen something that looks like

> this "/MovieClip:Frame1".

>

> Is that the way to call a specific frame or is that

> how you communicate with a text field?

>

> If I want to do this should it look like this

> Get Property ("/MovieClip:Frame1/MovieClipJunior",_x)

> or

> Get Property ("/"/MovieClip:Frame1,_x")

> or am I just giving quarters to too many street people

> or something?.




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