[FMX] Tell Target Command help

programming flash
1

Hi there!
I was reading the Tell Target Tutorial, and it said at one point to find the tell target command under the basic function command. I couldn’t find it, I tried to just type down the code:

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

is there a diffrence between FMX action script and F5 actions scrpt? Is that why? Can anyone help how to get through.

2

tellTarget should not be used. You can use the dot syntax instead:

cheese.gotoAndPlay(1);

pom :cowboy:

3

But on the tutorial it says that its more than just a clever Go To And Play thing…

4

Because it is… tellTarget can do a lot… but that is Flash 4 and below syntax.

_root.cheese.gotoAndPlay(frame#)
_root.cheese._alpha = 50
_root.cheese._rotation = 75
_root.cheese._xscale = 50
_root.cheese._yscale = 50

Just very few of the things you can do with the dot syntax much easier than the tellTarget syntax.

5

Okay Great! I still don’t know what the hell it is!
Oh well, any places where It has some good tuts on it?

6

tellTarget is no longer used, so a tutorial for it would pretty much be useless.

But tellTarget was just a way to target the properties of or control a movie clip so you can dynamically change it with AS. And now you can do that with the new dot syntax as posted above.