Tell Target help

Question

Hey Everyone,

I'm a newbie at Actionscripting and need a little bit of
help!

The main base of this flash file that I've created contains
two movie clips/symbols. Each movie contains their own timelines
and interactive elements.

Movie clip #1 is called "Home", which contains another movie
clip called "homebuttons". "homebuttons" contains a button called
"button-web".

When the user clicks on this "button-web" button, they should
be taken back out to movie clip file #2 called "web", which sits on
the main timeline, outside of movie clip #1.

The action I've written for this button is:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("_Level0/web") {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}
}

I've also tried various forms of tellTarget ("/web"),
tellTarget ("../../web") but I am getting confused and I'm not sure
what I should be doing.

The error that I'm getting is "Target not found:
Target="_Level0/web" Base="_level0.home.instance19".

If anyone out there has any insight to this and can guide me
in the right direction, it would be so much appreciated!!!

Thanks!!

logeye · Answer

As I understand it you have a path problem which is the biggest problem I've had over the years.

Is your path Home > homebuttons >button-web?

If so, code contained in the button button-web that says

_parent.gotoAndPlay(1) will refer to homebuttons
_parent._parent.gotoAndPlay(1) will refer to Home.
_root.gotoAndPlay(1) will refer to Home
_root.homebuttons.gotoAndPlay(1) will refer to homebuttons

Using _root may get you in trouble later if you decide to imbed this movie into another.

Your tellTarget refers to the movie "web" which you did not mention.

tellTarget is deprecated and is not used anymore. Using the dot syntax is the current usage.

example:
on(release){
_parent.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

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