TellTarget in MX

programming flash
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Hi,

I realise that the following question is very basic…

Which action-script commands will enable me of controlling movie clips in Flash MX? (I used to use ‘Tell Target’ in Flash 5). What I wish to do is very simple; tell a movie clip to go to a certain frame and play on…

Any help is much appreciated, thanx

/Bobo, Denmark

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They decided to do away with the tellTarget(); action in Flash MX, and replace it with the much simpler dot notation. So instead of using (forgive poor syntax)

tellTarget(_root.mymovieclip){
goToAndPlay(2)
}

we just use the dot notation to target the clip, like this:

_root.mymovieclip.goToAndPlay(2)

Get it? So you just use a dot as a separator to get clips within clips, and add the desired action on the end, also separated by the dot.