# Stuck on tell target
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 17, 2002, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275 "2002-11-17T10:06:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@blah\_de\_blah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blah_de_blah)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/1 "2002-11-17T10:06:42Z")
i’ve just read the tell target tutorial and it seems fairly simple. But i’m trying to get it to work in flash mx, is there any way to do it? I’ve found the tell target button in flash mx but the action script it produces seems different from the one that appears on flash 5. Is that suppose to happen? thx for your help
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/2 "2002-11-17T10:27:18Z")
MX Panel:
“TellTarget had been Deprecated since Flash 5; use of **dot notation** and the _with_ action is recommended.”
You just need the dot notation:
```php
movieClip.gotoAndPlay(10)
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/3 "2002-11-17T10:33:10Z")
so does that mean tell target is no use anymore?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/4 "2002-11-17T10:38:17Z")
Well, one of those Deprecated commands was ifFrameLoaded, if u tried to use it, you will notice that it won’t work with’in Flash MX, same for other commands and tellTarget, Macromedia are trying to go into an Object-Oriented Approach for Actionscript! from my side, i could c that “gotoAndPlay” command is more easier to use and much more powerful!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/5 "2002-11-17T10:47:23Z")
ah i see…so if i was using this tutorial
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/telltarget.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/telltarget.asp)
to try and work the animation, what would i be entering in the action box instead? would it just be seomehtin like
gotoAndPlay.Cheese
or somethin? i know that seems a bit wrong but i’m not too great at this heh
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/6 "2002-11-17T10:59:15Z")
```php
Cheese.gotoAndPlay(FrameNumber);
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/7 "2002-11-17T11:05:42Z")
cool i get it thx =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-tell-target/8275/8 "2002-11-17T11:14:10Z")
No problem 🙂