Joining Path in flash

Question

Hi all,
I'm very new in Flash so pardon my simple question. I can't
seem to get 2 path join together after drawing them out seperately
on the workspace. I understand that if the path is not close, the
bucket fill can't be used.
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Yes, mc1 and mc2 are both on the root timeline. The similar issue is that using a relative path does not work. Its been awhile since I used Flash and could do wonders with AS 2, but AS 3 is hard to get used to. (second nature to start typing _root...). I was told to avoid absolute paths and vars, and use events. What is the best way to have a movie clip play and then tell another (sibling) movie clip to play when it reaches a certain frame? When mc1 stops on frame x, the code below runs. The commented line is the one that does not work.
var fl_SecondsToCountDown:Number = 1;
var fl_CountDownTimerInstance:Timer = new Timer(1000, fl_SecondsToCountDown);
fl_CountDownTimerInstance.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fl_CountDownTimerHandler);
fl_CountDownTimerInstance.start();
function fl_CountDownTimerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void
Object(root).mc2.play();
//Object(this).mc2.play();
fl_SecondsToCountDown--;