Retrieve text from sprite at specific marker

Question

Is there a way to retrieve text from a spriteMember at a
specific marker when you are not located at that marker?
I have an presentation that uses small graphics at the bottom
to jump to it's corresponding marker based on the markerList. I
would like to retrieve the text in sprite(6) from the corresponding
marker location and display it in a text sprite on the stage at the
current location. Without jumping to that location.
I'm trying to avoid making a list or naming the members with
the corresponding marker.
Thanks.
Wally

Answer 1

>>Is there a way to retrieve text from a spriteMember
at a specific marker
>>when you are not located at that marker?
Short answer... no.
Can you get the text of the member?
If that won't work you can use the updateLock property of
score recording.
You can do something like this: set updateLock to true, go
the frame you
want, get the text of the member of the sprite, then return
to the frame you
were at and turn updateLock back to false.
on test
_movie.updateLock = true
go "spriteFrame"
put sprite(6).member.text
go "normalFrame:
_movie.updateLock = false
end
If you place that as a handler in a movie script, you can
enter test from
the message window and see what happens - you will see the
text of the
sprite displayed, but the play head won't move...
HTH
Dave -
Adobe Community Expert
www.blurredistinction.com
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