Determining The Frame Of A Movie Clip (question 2 Of 2)
Life will be a lot easier if there is a way to have flash detect what frame a movie clip is on. I'd like to be able to use that for a game that I'm working on. I'd like something similar to the following:
set variable "x" = (the current frame of MC "y") - 5
begin tell target "/y"
goto and stop (x)
end tell target
Does anyone have an idea as to how this can be achieved? Thanks for your help!
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Posted on: 06-22-2001, 08:56 PM
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