# Tell Target help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 31, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991 "2003-03-31T04:31:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fatalnegativ3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c67d28/32.png) [@fatalnegativ3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fatalnegativ3)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991/1 "2003-03-31T04:31:30Z")

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Hi, I am having extreme difficulty to get a telltarget rollover to work on a button, i tried everything and i’m sure i did everything correctly but it wont work, is there a trick to it? I put the name of the movie into it both with and w/o the “/” sign in front, i made sure the targeted movie is inserted into the main frame, and i even tried naming the layer the same as the movie, but it wont play when i put my mouse over the button! thx in advance for help.

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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:** [March 31, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991/2 "2003-03-31T04:34:36Z")

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although telltarget executes faster, the guys at MM reccomend using the dot syntax 🙂

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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:** [March 31, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991/3 "2003-03-31T04:37:09Z")

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tell targetting is deprecated in flash mx try using something like this

\_root.movieclipname.onPress=function();  
this.gotoAndPlay(frame #/ frame label);

if not try posting your fla so we can have a look at it

Grim

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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:** [March 31, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991/4 "2003-03-31T08:38:01Z")

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Electrongeek showed me this when I was dealing with tellTarget:  
[AS]  
on(rollOut){  
\_root.instancename.gotoAndPlay(frame);  
}  
[/AS]  
Works wonders for me!  
(-:

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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:** [March 31, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/16991/5 "2003-03-31T08:38:22Z")

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did you name the instance of the movie clip in the instance panel?

if so, post your .fla, and I will see if I can find your prob.

and these guys are right, telltarget is depricated. It still works, but it won’t for much longer I suspect.

Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif)