problems with tell target! 3

[wakkoguy]

hey,

i am having some trouble, i have an animated navigation with 6 buttons. they are placed in a movie clip. in edit mode for the navigation movie clip i have place another movie clip called About (for the about button) at the end. on the about button i have on release tell target to play the movie, but instead it restarts the navigation animation.
help and any design tips would be great appreciated!

 

[TFfan]

Perhaps a link or your code?

 

[wakkoguy]

ya i knew that, i just forgot to put it

http://www.icelebration.org/studentz/330/index.fla

 

[TFfan]

What exactly do you want it to do?

 

[TFfan]

oh wait, I see.

 

[theocraticmind]

your nav mc has the same instance name as the one you want to play. if you name the main one "nav" then this code will work:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("_root.nav.About&quot {
gotoAndPlay ("Roll"
}
}

hope this is what you wanted

 

[TFfan]

Or do this with your existing code:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("_root.About.About&quot {
gotoAndPlay ("Roll"
}
}

 

[oldnewbie]

Here's my 2 cents...

There is some confusion on instance names.
You should, as TheocraticMind as suggested, rename your nav movie clip Nav and keep your About-page mc to About.

But the main thing here is that your About-page mc is within your nav mc so when you target the About-page mc you have to target it through your nav mc.

Your script should thus be:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("_root.Nav.About&quot {
gotoAndPlay ("Roll"
}
}

Since the tellTarget action is deprecated, you could even more simply use:

on (release){
_root.Nav.About.gotoAndPlay ("Roll"
}

Regards,

 

[wakkoguy]

thanx guyz!

 

[wakkoguy]

ok then, what is the tellTarget action mainly used for?

 

[theocraticmind]

not realy anything anymore. defining the path the way oldnewbie did is far mroe practical.

 

[wakkoguy]

k stupid question, but my brain is not functioning right now, there's probably an easy answer to this. now that it works, my original navigation (mc nav) stays there while About-page plays. how do i remove the mc Nav?

 

[theocraticmind]

perhaps a blank frame that you tell it to go to on press? other than that you could set the _visibility of all the other buttons to false, but the frame thing would probly be quiker, and cleaner.

 

[wakkoguy]

i did that, now it won't play anything it just goes to a blank frame and doesn't play the mc that i want it to