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Problem: Target Path To Movie Clip Element Of A Button
I'm trying to figure out how to use AS to access frames of a movie clip within a button symbol (using Flash MX 2004), and I seem to be stuck. I drafted a small test version of the FLA I'm working on, and it is attached to this message.

Specifically, my intention is to have a two-state button that goes into "selected mode" after the first mouse click, and then goes back to normal after a 2nd click. I can already handle the functional aspect of this using a global boolean like the one in the attached file. The problem is that I want to represent the current status of the button with a visual change; in the attached example FLA, the intention was to change the color of the text label on this button from grey to red when the button is in its "selected" state.

In this forum I found a similar question where someone had provided a "menu.fla" that had a row of buttons that acted more or less like a radio set, which is somewhat similar to my need. I've been trying to use the same sort of method, having converted the "up" state of the button text into a movie clip symbol with two frames (one for each state), and then trying to use AS to do a "gotoAndStop()" on the desired frame of the up label animation. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to actually make this work ... no matter what sort of path I try to use to get to the movie clip animation within the button, I cannot seem to set the text animation to jump to the "selected" frame (2).

I think my problem is that I've been unable to glean any understanding from the Flash MX docs about the differences between an object name and a symbol name and an identifier and an instance name and a blah blah blah, or about which of them (if any) actually is an ID that can be accessed via ActionScript. Also, MX 2004 seems to provide almost no compile-time error checking on the validity of a target path either, so I've been reduced to just throwing every combination at it that I can think of. None have worked, so I'm at a loss.

If anyone can explain to me why the attached FLA doesn't cause the text to stay red after a mouse click, no matter which of the commented out lines I try, it would undoubtedly be a big help to me.

(Please note that the button in this FLA uses a basic flashing animation for mouseovers ... it was just something quick to implement to emulate the mouseover animation in my full file, so please don't be distracted by it. Also note that I haven't tried to implement any code to return the button to a non-selected status yet. One thing at a time.)

RESOLVED: It was apparently the nesting of a movieclip inside of a button that prevented the original target path from working (and one of the tutorials at this website seems to support that). Once I knew what the proper path syntax was and didn't have to worry about that part anymore, eventually the rest fell into place pretty easily once I started using a movieclip for the button rather than an actual button.

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I'm now getting frustrated. I have it working on the demo flash but I could not get it to work on the new flash movie.

On the action script of the button, I clicked on the targetpath icon that look like a circle with a plus overlapping it. There, it showed the movie clip, abcoa_mc as "_root.abcoa_mc" then I do the script ..

--snip--
on release {
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--snip--

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Thanks,
FletchSOD

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Is it possible to target a MC inside a button?

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Hi people.
I checked the archives and the tutorials but could not find the answer. Or at least I wasn't smart enough to figure it out......

I have a text box with an instance name textbox. I assigned a layer (AS) with the following code. The text loads fine.

// copy which is loaded
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} else {
trace("not loaded");
}
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The pull down button menu works fine as well...... Please hang with me. The next paragraph should show my error(s)......

// pulldown menu
onClipEvent(load){
previouslyOver=false;
}
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currentlyOver=this.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ym ouse,true);
if(!previouslyOver and currentlyOver){
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The code for each button currently looks like this:
The text doesn't load into the text field? Not sure what the target path should look like? Please help somebody.

Thanks a lot, Henrik

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on (press) {
_root.loadVarsText.load("historicevents.txt");
_root.textbox.text = loadVarsText.var1;
loadVarsText = function(success) {
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Code:
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Also, I should mention that I've tried putting this code on the Button 2 so that when Button 2 is initiated it will activate Button 1 to be false.

Also I've tried putting it into this code but doesn't work.

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code:
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I have already tried the "associative array" method, but it don't really know how to pack the whole eval function in there. I've tried many combinations, like:

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Code:
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package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.video.*;
import flash.text.TextField;

public class dMovie extends MovieClip {
public function dMovie() {

vidPlayback.playButton = playPlayback;

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im using swapdepths alot in this project, not sure if that effects anything. but i cant get a duplicated MC to goto a different frame! i've even used tellTarget.

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_parent._parent.done = "yes"; -ok

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_level0.sub_1.btnmc1.main_block.gotoAndStop(2); no go
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I have had a similar problem,

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So the Movie Clip called 'myinnerclip' doesn't just play in the timeline but is stopped also.

The _parent part works fine, but the 'myinnerclip' part always just plays.

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txtMovieName = new Array("mc_title", "mc_length", "mc_genre", "mc_bpm", "mc_format");

clipPath = "_level0"
function createClips() {
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_root[clipPath][txtMovieName[i]]._x = txtMovieXpos[i];
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Howdy
i've been doing the kirupa tutorial -
Transitions Between External SWFs.
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Now i cant get the buttons to load in the other extrenal SWFs
The tutorial says -

If your buttons are not located on the main timeline, you will have to change the path to the container movieclip.

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The SWF with the buttons is called "dropdown"
The main SWF i' want to load clips into is called "index"
The SWF i want to load is calles "services"

Below is the actionscript im using on the button.
How do i change the path to link to the container clip?
Can u guys help me?
Thanks in advance
Michael

on (release) {
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
_root.currMovie = "services";
container.loadMovie("services.swf");
} else if (_root.currMovie != "services") {
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Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong here.

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When the movie plays, the user sees five buttons on the top of the page (menu1_btn, menu2_btn, etc), if he rolls over one of the buttons, I have the movie jump to a part of the time line that shows that movie clip menu droping down and stopping. You have probably scene stuff like this a million times.

Okay, he is the part I don't get. Inside each of my menu movie clips are the links for various sections of my website. ("News", "About Us", "Buy Stuff", etc) Each is set up as a button and named accrodingly ("Menu1_Link1_btn","Menu1_Link2_btn"). My problem is this.

I'm trying to set up an AS file to contain all the URL's for every link in my menus. This will make life much easier down the line since alot of my co workers are programers and not Flash developers.

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stop();

_root.topNav_mc.menu1_btn.onRollOver = function (){
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_root.topNav_mc.menu1_mc.menu1_link1_btn.onRollOver = function(){
trace("button1 Menu1");
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_root.topNav_mc.menu1_mc.menu1_link2_btn.onRollOver = function(){
trace("button2 Menu1");
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_root.topNav_mc.menu1_mc.menu1_link3_btn.onRollOver = function(){
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_root.topNav_mc.menu1_mc.menu1_link4_btn.onRollOver = function(){
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_root.topNav_mc.menu2_mc.menu2_link2_btn.onRelease = function(){
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_root.topNav_mc.menu4_btn.onRollOver = function (){
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---
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Sorry for all my misspellings. If you wanna take a look at the problem, visit my site and click at "gallery". (click on a button/image so that it loads, then click it again.)

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