RE: FLASH: Tell Target and Actionscript Question: Movie clips to fade in, then out

[unique]

Sorry, a minor correction, for clarity ...


At the exact moment of 99.11.29.6.02, her/his local time, unique

<

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> put forth:


> At the exact moment of 99.11.29.9.50, her/his local time, Gavin Prior

>

<Gavin [dot] Priordk [dot] com> put forth:

> 

>> Can you be a bit more specific with what it is that you are trying to do ?

>> 

>> If you have multiple instances of the same MC then you can duplicate the same

>> movie as many times as you like (giving each duplicate a new name of course)

> 

> What I *am* doing is redesigning a bad HTML page into a good Flash page. In

> essence, there are five buttons across the top of the page, each of which,

> onrelease, runs a specific movie clip (text/information) in the staging area

> below the buttons.

> 

> So, I was thinking, what if I want to redesign the whole site this way? That

> might become 15 Flash pages, with 1 to 8 distinct movie clips for each. Where

> do I go with over 50 movie clip instances that I've had to create *only

> because* of this particular awkward "convention" that Flash uses for referring

> to the parent of a duplicated movie clip? The Duplicate Movie Clip action

                     ^^^^^^^^^^

               should be "duplicate"

                       

> requires an *instance* name. Why not a specific *symbol* name? Why couldn't I

> just design the movie clip exactly the way I want it to be, for one particular

> use only, and call it by referring to the symbol library, instead of having to

> have a physical "icon" sitting somewhere off-stage?

> 

> I'd really like to hear from someone who has found a "clean" solution for a

> case such as the one I've postulated here.

> 

> Maybe this is a wish-list item.

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> Ken Sherwood


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