Control Movie Clip With Button in MX

[KingJoe]

Er, simple question I know...

I want a movie clip in a scene to go to a specific frame of its timeline when I press a button also in the scene. With old Flash I'd do this with a tellTarget, how do I do it in MX? A listing of the steps would be much appreciated.

[gaz_b]

tellTarget does work in MX but you are probably looking for
the dot syntax used in Flash 5/MX.

so if your movieclip is on root and has an instance name of
"mc" then to refer to it you use:
_root.mc

if _root.mc has a frame labelled "TargetFrame" on its timeline then on a button in the flash movie you can put this code to send _root.mc to its "TargetFrame":

on(release){
_root.mc.gotoAndStop("TargetFrame");
// or _root.mc.gotoAndPlay("TargetFrame");
}

hope that helps

[KingJoe]

Thanks a lot