tellTarget 679
Description
Deprecated action; applies the instructions specified in the statements parameter to the
Timeline specified in the
target parameter. The tellTarget action is useful for navigation
controls. Assign
tellTarget to buttons that stop or start movie clips elsewhere on the Stage. You
can also make movie clips go to a particular frame in that clip. For example, you might assign
tellTarget to buttons that stop or start movie clips on the Stage or prompt movie clips to jump
to a particular frame.
In Flash 5 or later, you can use dot notation instead of the
tellTarget action. You can use the
with action to issue multiple actions to the same Timeline. You can use the with action to target
any object, whereas the
tellTarget action can only target movie clips.
Example
This tellTarget statement controls the movie clip instance ball on the main Timeline. Frame 1
of the
ball instance is blank and has a stop() action so that it isn’t visible on the Stage. When
the button with the following action is clicked,
tellTarget tells the playhead in ball to go to
Frame 2 where the animation starts.
on(release) {
tellTarget("ball") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
The following example uses dot notation to achieve the same results.
on(release) {
ball.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
If you need to issue multiple commands to the ball instance, you can use the with action, as in
the following statement.
on(release) {
with(ball) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
_alpha = 15;
_xscale = 50;
_yscale = 50;
}
}
See also
with
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