tellTarget Varible

[Raj]

I have a stop button that tells a movie clip to stop. The name of the movie clip is set by the variable "slide". Below is the action, which works fine if the stop button is in the main timeline.

on (release) {
tellTarget ((slide)) {
stop();
}
}

However if the button is in a different movie clip it does'nt work. Below is what I thought would be the answer but is NOT.

on (release) {
tellTarget (_root.(slide)) {
stop ();
}
}

I also tried it without any expresions, but no luck. Any items anyone?

[gcy80]

r u using flash4 / 5?
if flash 5...
try use _root.slide.stop();

if flash 4...
try use
tellTarget ("../slide")...

i not quite sure with flash 4...
sorry

[Raj]

Sorry I forgot... I'm using Flash MX, so flash 5 actionscript is OK.

Thanks for the reply. Just to let you know "slide" is a variable, the actual movie clip name is movie_1, but there are serevral movie clips so the variable tells the stop action which on to stop.

I tried your version:-

on (release) {
tellTarget _root.slide.stop();
}


Also tried:-

on (release) {
_root.slide.stop();
}

No luck I'm afraid. Any other suggestions?

[chi-styler]

Hi,

When targeting movie clip what you need to refer to is the name of that particular instance of a movie clip, I'm not not sure if this is what you're talking. If slide is the instance name of that movie clip on the main stage then

on (release) {
_root.slide.stop();
}

should work ok...

Chi

[sunmillennium]

try using 'eval' to get the final expression at runtime