Flash :: Seemingly Easy Problem With If And Else Ifs

Seemingly Easy Problem..
Hey,
i'm just trying to make a small cursor follow the mouse in a certain section of a movie i'm making.. But am getting some odd results.. For testing, i created a new movie with nothing but a ball. Made the ball an object and put the following code on the ball:

Code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(_xmouse>6.8 && _xmouse>351.8) {
this._x = _xmouse;
}
}

the ball moves real jerky, and a ghosted image of the ball appears onscreen, both flashing rapidly....

what am i doing wrong? the code make sense to me, but cant seem to figure out the flashing (no pun intended). I also tried adding updateAfterEvent(), but still no help...

thanks,
-myk

So Easy, Seemingly...Japanese Language
Hi,
This should be simple, but I've looked and read and can't figure it out.

I'm using Flash MX. I want to give my users the options of displaying text in Japanese (and other languages). Currently, I have a dynamic text field that updates in English.

I want to do the same dynamic text in Japanese. I don't know Japanese, so I won't need to be typing it in. However, I have a translation that I just want to cut and paste into the .fla.

What are the steps I need to do for this? I've read the Macromedia site and can't see how to do it easily. I'd rather not have to reset my OS language.

Please help!
Maria

Seemingly Easy GotoAndPlay Problem...
First post here..

I have to make a flash game by next Wednesday for school and i've run into a problem. The game involves flying a helicopter through obstacle courses. When the helicopter reaches the pad at the other end, it should change scene to the next level.

The helicopter itself is a movie clip, as well as the pad and all the obstacles. This is the problem area of code- this is on the helicopter.

if (hitTest(_level0.wall6)==true) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene 3",1);
}

Flash does detect the helicopter entering the pad but refuses to change scene. I've tried with _parent.gotoAndPlay, _root._root.gotoAndPlay (and many more), and I get no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

Creating Shapes, Seemingly From Nowhere
In an example that came with Flash 5.0, they had one under Help>Samples>Circular Motion that had a line go from the origin to the mouse.

I didn't understand the code.

Someone help? No obligation. Even a tutorial would be warmly (and graciously) accepted.

~Crickett

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH Getting No Were With Something Seemingly So Simple
okay... all I want to do is have a button... a button that does a little animation on rollover, but i want the small ani to continue even after the user has moved his/her mouse away. So it doesnt just jump back...

ill attached what I have so far (FLA and SWF).. whenever I ad the script on>press goto and stop fram 31...... nothing... doesn't even recognize the rollover any longer! ahhhhhhhhhh

please help

thanx

derek ptacnik

Seemingly Faultless Code
I'm making a site for my mate's band, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Anyway, I've just about finished, and I've got the problem now that everything works fine, except for one bug on the menu.

See the attached file, and then click "Menu", and rotate it to the right.
After "Homepage", clicking again it does nothing. Click again, and it skips past "News" and goes straight to "Biographies".

I've checked my code several times, but can't see any problems with it!

Any help, please?

Download .fla here

Pics Seemingly Overlapping...?
hey guys-

been workin on the photo section for a guys site. got this code goin into parsing the xml, gettin the appropriate information into an object, attaching the thumbnail movieclip to the stage, getting the right thumb pic loaded into it, preloading it, etc etc. well everything is tracing back right, but no pics were showing up. so i changed the url to the loadMovie command to the normal sized pic (which should be called when clicking on the thumbnails once all this is said and done). well now i see the pics show up momentarily but then are gone after the next pic is loaded. yet all the thumb holder clips are on seperate levels. can anyone think of why this might be happening based on the below code? i can zip up the used elements (.fla, .jpg, etc) if anyone can take the time to check it out for me. i've been tryin to get over this little hurdle for like two weeks now and really need to get it over w/ so i can continue w/ the development, so thank you very much for any time you spend on tryin to help me out! peace-

Code:
initParse = function () {
pics = [];
var picNodes = picXML.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i<picNodes.length; i++) {
var picURL = picNodes[i].attributes.url;
var picThumb = picNodes[i].attributes["thumb"];
pics.push({url:picURL, thumb:picThumb});
}
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbsHolder", 10);
thumbsHolder._x = 100;
thumbsHolder._y = 50;
buildThumbs(thumbsHolder);
};

buildThumbs = function(clip) {
var i:Number = 0;
var amt = pics.length-1;
var xSpace = 0;
var ySpace = 0;
var xInc = 70;
var yInc = 60;
var buildIt = function() {
var mc = clip.attachMovie("thumbsHolderMC", "thumb_"+i, i, {_xscale:0, _yscale:0});
mc._y = ySpace;
mc._x = xSpace;
mc.scaleTo(100, .60, "easeOutExpo");
xSpace += xInc;
(i == 4 || i == 8)?ySpace += yInc:null;
i++;
if (i > amt) {
clearInterval(doBuild);
loadThumbs(clip);
}
}
var doBuild = setInterval(buildIt, 150);
}

checkIt = function (j) {
var tB = mcArr[j].holder.getBytesTotal();
var lB = mcArr[j].holder.getBytesLoaded();
//trace("mcArr[j]: "+mcArr[j]+" | typeof: "+typeof (mcArr[j]));
var per = Math.round(100*(lB/tB));
// If the loaded bytes exeeds 10 AND load percentage is 99 or greater...
if (lB>10 && per>=99) {
trace('mcArr['+j+']: '+mcArr[j]+' loaded successfully');
var dep = mcArr[j].getDepth();
clearInterval(doCheck);
mcArr[j].gotoAndStop("loaded");
j++;
loadIndividual(j);
}
};
//
loadIndividual = function (i) {
// Execute the code in this function only if the movieclip array has not been exhausted.
if (i<mcArr.length) {
mcArr[i]._alpha = 100;
//trace("mcArr[i]: "+mcArr[i]+" | typeof: "+typeof (mcArr[i]));
mcArr[i].holder.loadMovie(pics[i].url);
//trace("pics[i].thumb: "+pics[i].thumb);
doCheck = setInterval(checkIt, 200, i);
}
};
//
loadThumbs = function (mc) {
// hold all the thumbs mc references needing to be preloaded;
mcArr = [];
var j:Number = 0;
var k:Number = 0;
for (var i in mc) {
// Restrict content of array to only movieclips.
if (typeof (mc[i]) == "movieclip") {
// Include FULL movie clip path.
mcArr[j] = mc[i];
j++;
}
}
mcArr.reverse();
loadIndividual(k);
};

stop();

[F8] Stumped On The Seemingly Simple
Can anyone do me a solid and translate this desire into actionscript(2.0). Here goes... the process outlined in layman terms - on btn push user goes -to frame -to movie on that frame -to frame within that movie. Sounds simple but I'm stumped on the code. So, once again, upon the root timeline, there lies a frame, upon that frame there lies a movie, and within that movie there lies a frame, how would a btn on the main timeline get me there? Thanx

A Seemingly Simple Problem....
I have what is probably a very simple problem, but I've never been a very strong coder. Here goes:

I have a scene that plays til the middle, then has an action to stop. The scene has about 30 different links. What I want to happen is this: When the user clicks on any random link, the timeline plays til the end before proceeding to the respectively linked scene.

Try as I might, I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

beth

Flashvars Seemingly Not Working
I'm having issues getting Flashvars and url encoded variables working in CS3 / AS3. I swear I have everything setup correctly, but variables are not passed. And, when I publish, I get: 1120: Access of undefined property _root compile error. I can't even get the Adobe example to work: I know I must be missing something really simple, any help would be greatly appreciated. Code below.

Attach Code

AS:

var my_video:String;
my_flv.source = _root.my_video;

HTML:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="player" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="player.swf" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="my_video=video.flv>
<param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />

<embed src="player.swf" FlashVars="my_video=video" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="player" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

GetDefinitionByName Seemingly Not Working
Alright, weird issue here, out of nowhere basically. Trying to instantiate a class using a string, which works absolutely fine outside of one class ("NavButton").

ActionScript Code:
trace(NavButton.work); // traces MOTHER F***ING WORK!classReference = getDefinitionByName("com.cfms.NavButton") as Class;// returns ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable NavButton is not defined.

I can manually instantiate the class through new NavButton(). It's importing fine, it's compiling fine, I can trace static vars fine, I can manually make the class. All of my other classes from the package work fine with getDefinitionByName...

PS. I've stripped everything from the class in case of conflicts, or something...

ActionScript Code:
package com.cfms { import com.cfms.SiteSprite; class NavButton extends SiteSprite { public static var work:String = "MOTHER F***ING WORK!"; function NavButton(xmlInfo:XML) { super(xmlInfo); } }}

ARGH! What am I missing here?

Seemingly Simple Button Problem
I think I need someone who understands to just tell me what my stumbling block is.

I'm using Flash MX, on a mac, I have a button that has NO keyframes in it. I keyframe each state, Up, Over, Down, and Hit. Then I try to add an action to the Over state keyframe, but all of the actions are greyed out.

What I'm ultimately trying to accomplish is to have a caption for the button appear when the user hovers over the button.

What gives?

Thanks!

-spack

Seemingly Simple Button Problem
I have a situation where you moouse over a button and a MC plays creating a dropdown menu. sometimes if you rollover it quick it plays and when you rollout it doesn't go away it just stays open. is there a way to remedy? perhaps some sort of mouseover timer? am I missing something? should Idrink some more coffee? help please...

Seemingly Simple Array Question
I have an array with say, 10 entries. Entries 6,7, and 8 are populated as follows:

my_array[6] = 17;
my_array[7] = 19.5;
my_array[8] = 26;

If in another function, I had the number 19.5, how could I use that to return the number 6. I can't seem to find function that will look through an array for a value, and return that index number. Any ideas?

Seemingly Simple GotoAndStop Problem
I have an MC that plays in my timeline. On the last frame of the MC I put "gotoAndStop("Scene 1", "home");

[CS3] Still Struggling With A Seemingly Basic Concept
Using AS 2.0.
My idea is to have seperate movie clips play when I press different buttons, but each one must play its outro before moving on to the next.

Each clip has an intro, a stop, and an outro.

Im using the attachMovie command to bring the movie up, but how do I get the current movie's outro to play before moving on to the next?

Basically, its a bunch of colored buttons used to signify a vehicle's different color. Clicking on each changes the color of the car but I want the colors to fade between, not just change.

My goal is to be able to do this with the car's color;
http://www.dodge.com/en/2008/charger/

The only thing I CANT do is have external movie clips.

(seemingly) Layered Flash Websites
Hello!

I've noticed a few websites (made by hi-res! in particular) seem to be layered in some way, for example on http://www.hi-res.net . You can stretch the browser window, and the image in the background re-scales to fill the window, however, the text and links do not rescale.

Simelarly, some websites have a flash element in the top left hand corner of the browser, with another flash element in the opposite bottom right hand corner, which do not rescale when the browser window changes size.

I want to create website that works in this way, and have created a .swf that is set in dreamweaver to 100%. When I load extra flash movies on top of this main .swf, all of the movies scale together. How do I make the browser scale one flash movie and not the other?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. (I'm sorry if I wasn't very good at explaining this!)

Paul

.bytesLoaded Gives Seemingly Random Numbers
I'm using .getbytesLoaded on a movieclip to determine how much data is loaded (obviously) and its generally giving the right numbers.. But sometimes, for no reason, it just gets them wrong.. Maybe 1 call out of 5 is wrong.

When you convert it into a percentage form (with .bytesTotal) the percentage goes up normall, ie - 11, 12, 13.. then 4.. 5.. 16.. 17.. 18.. 9.. 0..

HELP!

Seemingly Simple Gotoandstop Problem
I have an MC that plays in my timeline. On the last frame of the MC I put "gotoAndStop("Scene 1", "home");

Resizing....I Hate To Even Ask Such A Seemingly Simple Q....
I can't for life of me figure out the following:

I have been given a new movie to work with that is 550x400
and I need to convert the movie to 578x291. The movie, in its original size appears in the middle of the stage and all I want to do is resize the stage AND keep the movie in the center.

How do I do resize the stage and keep the movie in its current orientation in relation to the stage without having moving every object, layer, motion guide, symbol by hand?

Thanks in advance.

B. Huston

Seemingly Simple Problem With Links
I would really appreciate any helpful advice that is available!

I am trying to create a cd using flash. The flash file needs to have links to pdfs that are also stored on the cd. The only thing that I can figure out how to link to is other flash files and internet files, not pdfs.

Anyone have any insight?

I have no action script knowledge whatsoever, so I attempted to use the Behavior link to website feature, and then just type in the file name, but that obviously didn't work.

Cd needs to go out today, and all else is set. So please help!! Thanks

Argh - Problem With Seemingly Simple Geturl
I've got a flash movie up that I'm having problems with. The movie is trying to jump to a new url on the same server, and I keep getting

"The attempt to load 'Accessing URL:http://...' failed."

I am using geturl(jumpurl) inside the movie

I have tired variants of "_self" and "_top"

the way the movie works is it validates an entered password by passing it to a PHP script and the PHP passes back the URL to jump to based on the passoword/username. The URL ends up in jumpurl variable in movie.

I've debugged the passing of variables and as many things as I can and I'm still stuck. I think I'm overlooking something basic with getting out of the flash movie and to the new html page... I've considered doing a call to javascript but I'm not too hot with java and I want to open the new URL in the same browser window, not a new page.

I'd love some help on this. I've also checked out the file permissions on the site where everything sits and all seems to be well -

ANY HELP APPRECIATED! THANKS!

d.

(let me know and I can point you to URLs to check this out or give more info if needed - THANKS!)

Seemingly Simple Dynamic Text Problem
Hey,
i have a movie that loads in dynamic text from a text file. THe body shows up fine, but the header doesnt. I ran a trace action to make sure the text is getting loaded in, and it is, but will not show in the dynamic text box with the instance name "subject"..

FLA and .txt files are attached..

Help?

thanks,
-myk

Help - Seemingly Simple Active Button Question...
Hi all.

OK, help.

This is very simple. I know it is. And it's beyond me.

I have buttons (transparent) and little mc animations (tweened the good old fashioned way) that play underneath them on onPress.

What I want to do is make it so that when you press say "Home" the animation will stay in the "on" position until you click something else, anything else. That is to say, I want to say "This button just got clicked, play the animation, keep it in the "active" state while the user is looking at the page, and play the "inactive" state when the user clicks ANYTHING else."

Right now, I've coded each individual button like this:

on(release) {
content.loadMovie("about.swf");
buttonthing.gotoAndPlay ("off");
buttonthing3.gotoAndPlay ("off");
buttonthing4.gotoAndPlay ("off");
buttonthing2.gotoAndPlay ("on");
}

That's just silly, but I can't figure out any other way!

Any help with this would be great. I don't want to do anything complex, just a simple way of saying it with AS would be amazing.

Thanks!

-B

Flash Site Breaks, Seemingly For No Reason
I build this site: http://www.refindfurniture.com

The portfolio section has a dynamically loaded image gallery which loads images into a blank movie clip and centers them. It works fine, but if you click on the buttons enough times, eventually they start showing up in weird places (really far left or right) and if you reload it enough times, sometimes it loads all the images in a quick succession in the top left of the screen.

Does anyone know why a flash movie would hvae buggy behaviour like this? I've seen stuff like this before, where it acts strangely if you click on buttons very quickly.

Just Need One Knowledgeble Person To Answer A Seemingly Simple Question For Me...
I have a button that uses loadVariables to bring a txt file into a dynamic text box. I want to be able to click on a word in that txt file once it is loaded into the .swf and cause it to load a different txt file into that same text box. Instead of using a hyperlink to go to a different webpage, I want it to go to a different txt file in the same movie. Does this make sense?

Recap: This is what I want to do: clicking on a word in theory.txt causes history.txt to load into the same movie, same dynamic text box.

Please help me...this is the third or fourth time I've posted this message, and I've gotten a few views, no answers. Someone please answer!

Thankyou in advance,
Kaugummisch

Seemingly Simple Yet Immensely Annoying Flash And Php Proble
i've been having a hard time getting flash to read the output of a php script. the php seems to output name/value pairs ok when accessed in the browser but flash is getting the variables as 'undefined' when i try to trace them.

just to test my setup i followed the simple example here - http://www.heaveninteractive.com/web...th-php-part-1/ - but it still gives 'undefined' for both trace outputs.

if i trace (evt.target.data) i get

Code:

%3C%3Fphp%0A%0A%24returnVars%20=%20array%28%29%3B%0A%24returnVars%5B%27username%27%5D%20%3D%20%22John%20Doe%22%3B%0A%24returnVars%5B%27email%27%5D%20%3D%20%22johndoe%40hotmail%2Ecom%22%3B%0A%24returnString%20%3D%20http%5Fbuild%5Fquery%28%24returnVars%29%3B%0A%0A%2F%2Fsend%20variables%20back%20to%20Flash%0Aecho%20%24returnString%3B%0A%0A%3F%3E

so i can see the values in there, but flash is unable to access them.

as you can tell i'm not the most experienced as3 bod. any ideas my fellow scripters?

A Seemingly Very Simple Embedded Font Problem, Completely Unsolvable?
Hi,

I've posted on this issue in one form or another several times over the past few weeks, and it remains completely un-resolved. I keep telling myself to just move on but there HAS to be a way of doing this. It seems so simple! Thanks to all of the members who have already offered their suggestions and taken a few stabs at it themselves.

I'm going to strip the problem down to the nitty gritty here:

-mc_A and mc_B each have dynamic text fields that use Verdena Bold.
-mc_A loads mc_B into a container on it's main timeline.
-mc_A has a dynamic text field offstage on frame one which is set to Verdena Bold and has chosen chars embedded. This textfield is also within a mc in it's library called "text_mc".
-mc_B needs access to those characters

That's it! Before you just say "font symbol", or "shared library item", please give it a shot. Here's what I ran into:
If I just use attachMovie it works great.
If I try to publish mc_B without embedding the font, I can't adjust its alpha
If I embed the font, the size raises accordingly
Font Symbols not only require me to import about 20k of gibberish, but I couldn't get them to work at all without again embedding characters.
Dragging an instance of text_mc from mc_A to mc_B didn't work either

You have no idea how many hours I've spent on this. If I quit now it means that I've just flushed all of those hours down the toilet. Can anybody please post a working example?

BTW, I'm using Flash8 but publishing for Flash7.

SUPER EASY / RETARDED EASY SetMask ?
Ok got a simple retarded question. I have 1 swf loading into a holder_mc and a mask_mc set with setMask but it is not working. There is nothing else to this but so help me it is not working and I know I have to be overlooking something simple but I am just not seeing it.

Heres the whopping 3 lines of code:
code: stop();
contentHolder_mc.loadMovie("home.swf");
contentHolder_mc.setMask(contentMask_mc);

Example attached.

thx

c

Easy Question, Hopefully Easy Answer...
How can i create a grid of 20 movieclips? I would like to have 4 columns and 5 rows.
Its going to be used for a drag and drop game. any help would be REALLY appreciated!!

Something Really Easy To Answer, But Yet Not So Easy
Can anyone tell me if the ; is needed in flash MX because in flash 5 it gave me errors when i never put it in. But in MX it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Easy Question Or Not So Easy?
I am trying to save buttons and movies I have created to the main Library for use in other projects and I am having trouble figuring out how to do this. I am using flash mx. I tried going into program files and flashmx and finding the library that way. I thought I found the folder and exported a file to it and when I opened the folder it was there but when I was in flash and opened the main library flash provides for you it did not show up. Please help this newb.

thanks,

Don

Easy Easy Question
alright i have a movie clip within my movie that will display text, but the text is always different and it loads it dynamically what is the best way for each of my buttons to tell the movie clip to load and then tell the textbox to load a specific file.

_alpha / Easy In And Easy Out
I need for this code a Easy in/ onRollOver and Easy out/ onRollOut.

---

for(i=1;i<6;i++){
theButton=_root["mc"+i];

theButton.thisNum = i ;
theButton._alpha = 0;
theButton.speed = 5

theButton.onEnterFrame=function() {

if (_root["mc"+this.thisNum].overMe) {

this.elasticScale(150, 0.7, 0.3)
} else {
this.elasticScale(100, 0.7, 0.3)
}
}
theButton.onRollOver=function(){

this.speed = 5;

if (this._alpha > 100)
{
this._alpha += speed;
}
else
{
this._alpha = 100;
}

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].overMe=true;

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].swapDepths(5000)
}
theButton.onRollOut=function(){

this.speed = 5;

if (this._alpha > 100)
{
this._alpha -= speed;
}
else
{
this._alpha = 0;
}

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].overMe=false;

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].swapDepths(5000)
}
}

Easy Help Please
so i want to load a flash web page fullscreen, but have it load another movie inside at no scale. that way i can drag that movie around with a fullscreen of space. i've done it with the flash projector, but can it be done for the web? thanks-

Easy Help Please
is there a way to limit the number of returns a person can input in a input box? thanks-

Easy
Hey guys, here's an easy one.
I have main.swf with three buttons. I need all three buttons to load the same movie, more.swf but at different frames. I am loading the swf into an MC, and not a level.

I just cant get this to work...

Easy As 1,2,3? You'd Think . . .
Please help in getting this to work!

I've been having hell with making an updatable menu, so could someone please describe a working layout which will;

load a .htm containing variable created menu buttons, which will load external .swf movies into a specific level.

That's all i ask. Easy as 1,2,3 isn't it!? Well i've been trying for weeks, but no luck.

I'd really really appreciate help in resolving this.

::bluemoth::

Easy Q
Is there an Actionscript command where i can pause my movie for a certain amount of seconds and then have it play again? please respond ASAP...

Thanks In Advance

Really Easy-anyone Can Probably Help
Hi,

Okay, I have a button inside a movie clip. When I press that button, I would like to go to another SCENE.

Shouldn't that be something like:

_root.gotoAndPlay ("scenename",1);

Why does nothing happen? What am I forgetting?

Thanks
Nicky

Easy One...Please Help
I know this has to be the easiest question asked all week, but I really could use some help.

In this scenario, I have 3 Movie clips 15 frames long each. I place 1 Movie Clip on Frame 1, a second on Frame 2, and the third on Frame 3. What do I code to make the main Movie advance from Frame 1 to 2 to 3 at the end of each movie, and not before then? Does the code go on the Movie Clip, or in the main Timeline?

Thanks in advance.

EASY FOR YOU (but Not For Me)
Here's an easy one....

Is there any way to swap one symbol in my library with another one so that every time that symbol is used in an instance in the movie that it is automatically replaced?

I know how to swap instances, but that's one at a time (and sometimes I use a symbol upward to 100 times in a movie). I want to just change the symbol globally.

(Basically, I'm making an cartoon that is a total of 15 seperate files where one uploads the next. I am now understanding the uses of a "shared library" and therefore just made a master library with all the graphic symbols from all 15 movies so it's one big download at the beginning rather than 15 medium downloads. Now I am trying to go back into the 15 movies, bring in the "imported" symbols from the master library and reapply them to the movies.)

Maybe there's an easier way of me doing THAT?

Thanks for all your help!

--Darcie

Easy One, Help Please
Hi,

I was hoping one of you guys could help me out. I have made a banner advert in flash 4, and want to put an action on it so that when a user clicks on it it will link to a web site. Easy right? Nope.

I can put a get url action onto a specific symbol/clip featured in, but the 'on mouse event' option is unselectable.

How can I make it so that the whole banner will be a link, but only when clicked and go automatically when it plays once which is what happens now.

If anyone could put me right It would really help me out

Thanks

This One Is Easy For You.....
I've got 9 textvars (input text) in frame 1, scene 1, layer 1. I want the <tab> key to jump from 1 to 9. Can someone give me the correct way to use the function Selection.getFocus() WITH an example?? Let's say we'll use the vars: t1, t2, t3 and so on. The action is given in frame 1, scene 1, layer 2, and i want someone to explain me the use of the trace action nessesary in this script..
Thanks a million!
:-)

Please Help. This Should Be Easy
here's the problem i'm having. It's probably something really easy and i'm just too stupid to figure it out. I have a movie clip that I want to use multiple instances of. Each of which I will give an instance name of "flake1", "flake2", etc... I have a button that activates a controller movie clip which, in turn, activates the "flake" movie clips. The action on the button is as follows:
on (rollOver) {
button = 1;
tellTarget ("_root.controller") {
gotoAndStop (2);
}
}
on (rollOut) {
tellTarget ("_root.controller") {
gotoAndStop (3);
}
}
there are 3 frames within my controller clip. On the first frame there is just a "stop" action. The second frame has an action of

tellTarget ("_root.flake"+button) {
play ();
}
the third frame has the following action:
tellTarget ("_root.flake"+button) {
gotoAndPlay ("fadeout");
}
yet, when i test my flash movie i get the following error.
Target not found: Target="_root.flake" Base="_level0.controller"

please help