# Really nice drop downs
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 14, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517 "2003-02-14T05:02:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517/21 "2003-02-15T04:33:13Z")
> It still works in MX, but tellTarget is like Flash 4/5 syntax.
flash 3/4 actually. deprecated in flash 5 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517/22 "2003-02-15T04:35:29Z")
Well for being Deprecated in Flash 5, a heck of a lot of Flash 5 tutorials only use tellTarget :-\
I know Flash 5 started the new dot syntax in which you didn’t need tellTarget, but I also know almost every Flash 5 tutorial that involves using things like that always use tellTarget instead of the dot syntax. I always wondered about that.
But eh, I started with MX, I don’t know anything about anything before it 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517/23 "2003-02-15T04:38:34Z")
i started with flash mx as well … but it’s always good to know some of the flash history 😉
and yes … i wonder too why they use so much tellTarget in flash 5 being so much easier with the dot sintax :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517/24 "2003-02-15T04:41:20Z")
yeah thought so, u can tell its not flash mx there using in the tutorial because of the actions window and where the action options are situated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/really-nice-drop-downs/13517/25 "2003-02-15T14:14:52Z")
> \*Originally posted by Soulty \*
> \*\*still using telltarget at the computer arts tutorial for drop down menus?? \*\*
> Oups, I didn’t remember that :-\ Well, I guess you’ll have to adapt. Anybody checked the component?
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