# \[FMX\] Tell Target Command help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721 "2003-02-17T09:08:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![RussianBeer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/russianbeer/32/152_2.png) [@RussianBeer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RussianBeer)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721/1 "2003-02-17T09:08:42Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721/2 "2003-02-17T17:06:50Z")

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

```php
cheese.gotoAndPlay(1);

```

pom :cowboy:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721/3 "2003-02-21T04:36:21Z")

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

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**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721/4 "2003-02-21T05:03:04Z")

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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.

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**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721/5 "2003-02-21T05:04:48Z")

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

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**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-tell-target-command-help/13721/6 "2003-02-21T05:51:22Z")

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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.