still not working from within movieclip symbol

[neobadlands]

I already posted this:

Trying to reach main timeline from button within movieclip symbol.

davdesign told me to use "level0/", I guess in addition to "telltarget".

It works, but the main movie just starts to play, i.e. "gotoAndPlay" does not work, somehow...

Need help ASAP.

Neo

 

[davdesign]

hi

if you send me the fla I'll have a look at it and e-mail back.

dD davdesign@hotmail.com

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[davdesign]

hi

when you're targeting the main timeline be sure to target _level0 as an 'expression' so that the button action looks like this:

on (press) {
tellTarget (_level0) {
gotoAndPlay (40);
}
}

i.e: there's no quotation marks anywhere. I've sent you the fla by e-mail and it works fine now.

dD
davdesign@hotmail.com

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[davdesign]

hi neo
I've posted the fla to you but I'll put the explanation up here in case there's any other people who are unsure.

Flash 5 users
>>Create your buttons and drag them into position on the main stage.
>>open your actions window from the toolbar: Window>Actions or Ctrl+Alt+A
>>Click on the button you want to add actions to.
>>Go into the actions window.There's an arrow at the top left, clickon that and make sure that you are in 'Normal Mode'.
>>There are 6 submenu's on the left, click on 'Actions'.
>>Double click the action 'on'
>>Select 'release', 'rollover' etc to suit
>>Double-click the action 'getURL'
>>The three options that appear below should be filled in as follows:

URL: the-page-you-want-to-load.html
Window: the-name-of-your-target-frame
Variables: Don't send

So if you had a 'home' button on your nav-bar and wanted it to load 'home.html' into a frame named 'right', your getURL actions would look like this:

URL: home.html
Window: right
Variables: Don't send

And thats it!!!

Flash 4 users
>>Create your buttons and drag them into position on the main stage.
>>Double-click the button you want to give actions to.
>>Click on the + sign to add an action
>>Select 'OnMouseEvent' and select the option for 'press', 'release' etc
>>Click on the + sign to add an action
>>Select 'GetURL'
>>The three options that appear below should be filled in as follows:

URL: the-page-you-want-to-load.html
Window: the-name-of-your-target-frame
Variables: Don't send

So if you had a 'home' button on your nav-bar and wanted it to load 'home.html' into a frame named 'right', your getURL actions would look like this:

URL: home.html
Window: right
Variables: Don't send

And thats it!!!

Hope this helps
dD
davdesign@hotmail.com

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[davdesign]

oops

posted in wrong thread ^^^ sorry!

dD davdesign@hotmail.com

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