TellTarget

Hi to All,
I am new to flash lite. I prepared a small game in flash
lite. I randomly generate some duplicate movie clips (they are
moving from to down for example: bullets are dropping). I am
controlling the ship through arrow keys. I am unable to target the
ship with bullets.
Here i'am sending the arrow keys code.

Hi eeswardelihi,
Where in your code are you trying to target the bullets
hitting the ship?
The code you supply for the arrow keys looks fine, but there
is no reference of the bullets?
Please supply more information about the bullets movieclips.
Regards

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as a parked movie clip through tellTarget. Currently Buick_rollOut
only works if I put the parked movie clip on the same level as ph.
I want Buick_rollOut to be within the movie clip, ph, that contains
the button. I want that button be able to tellTarget the location
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Is this code running on the button? What's the name of the
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Things would be a little clearer if you replaced tellTarget
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TellTarget how does it work?

Hello:
I'm looing in the Director help form Telltarget to control
flash movie in
the example
-- Lingo syntax
sprite(1).tellTarget("\myMovieClip")
I don't understand "\myMovieClip" . I write the name of my
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the cast and an error happens, so I can't communicate wih my
flash movie.
Can you help me?
Thans

Thank you very much.
I have a little animation of a roll dice in swf format that a
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"Chunick" <[email protected]>
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> \myMovieClip would be the name of your movieClip in the
Flash sprite. So,
> let's
> say you imported a flash .swf file into your cast and
then dragged that
> member
> onto the stage, finally, in some code you wanted to
control the flash
> sprite...
> but what you really wanted to control was the movieClip
in the sprite...
> you
> could use the tellTarget() command to communicate with
the movieClip in
> the
> Flash sprite directly. Let's say my movieClip was called
mc_ManWalkCycle,
> it's
> in the root timeline, and my flash sprite has a behavior
attached to it,
> it
> might look something like this:
>
> property pState
>
> on beginSprite me
> pState = 0
> sprite(me.spriteNum).tellTarget(\mc_ManWalkCycle)
> end
>
> -- starts and stops the flash movieClip's walk animation
cycle
> on mouseUp me
> pState = not pState
> if pState then
> sprite(me.spriteNum).play()
> else
> sprite(me.spriteNum).stop()
> end if
> end
>
> on endSprite me
> sprite(me.spriteNum).endTellTarget()
> end
>
> ** Important Note: I've never used this particular
command so I really
> don't
> know if it will work as described in the help docs
(knowing how error
> prone
> they are), so take what I've explained with a grain of
salk, but I hope it
> helps, at any rate.
>

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I am truely a beginner and here is my problem.
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What I want to do is to translate the piece of AS2 code below to AS3:
on (release) {
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I am aware of the on (release) has been changes to EventListners in AS3 but I cannot figure the rest out.
I am greatful for any advice and help!
Thanks!

tellTarget is AS1, not AS2, and is replaced with dot notation coding (aka OOP). But since the command in this case is to stop all sounds, targeting an object doesn't seem necessary since it is a global command. The replacement for it would be to import the SoundMixer class (early on) and call its stopAll() method.
import flash.media.SoundMixer;
SoundMixer.stopAll();
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1. You have not posting anything to show how Flash is
communicating wit the
server PHP script and it a guess that the variable in the
checkbox is not
getting sent.
2. Code with tellTarget is old and will be completely
obsolete as you want
to migrate this to newer and newer features in Flash for the
future.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
"Asesino" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello all,
> I have a flash form that has three checkboxes and some
input text boxes.
> My
> form uses a PHP script that works perfect for the text
but not the Check
> boxes.
> I'm not using the checkbox component, I'm using a check
box i got from
> flash
> kit. Below is the code for the checkbox movie and my php
code. What do I
> have
> to declare in the my php file to have the check box
work?
>
> on (press) {
> if (Number(CB_1) == 0) {
> tellTarget ("checkbox1") {
> gotoAndStop(2);
> }
> CB_1 = 1;
> showstate1 = "yes";
> } else {
> tellTarget ("checkbox1") {
> gotoAndStop(1);
> }
> CB_1 = 0;
> showstate1 = "no";
> }
> }
>
>
> This is my php code
>
> <?
>
> // Enter your contact email address here
> $adminaddress = "[email protected]";
>
> // Enter the address of your website here include
http://www.
> $siteaddress ="www.mysite.com";
>
> // Enter your company name or site name here
> $sitename = "my site";
>
> /*******************************************************
>
> No need to change anything below unless you want to add
or subtract
> functions
> or change the wording of things sent back to the flash
file ...
>
> *******************************************************/
>
> // Gets the date and time from your server
> $date = date("m/d/Y H:i:s");
>
> // Gets the IP Address
> if ($REMOTE_ADDR == "") $ip = "no ip";
> else $ip = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);
>
> //Process the form data!
> // and send the information collected in the Flash form
to Your nominated
> email address
> if ($action != ""):
> mail("$adminaddress","New User has Registered",
> "A visitor at $sitename registered!\n
> ---------------------------------------------
> Personal Info
> Name: $fname
> Last Name: $lname
> Address: $add
> City: $city1
> State: $state
> Zip: $zip
> Telephone: $tele
> E-mail: $email
> ---------------------------------------------
> Recieve Free Book: $showstate1
> Invitation to Seminar: $showstate2
> Schedule Free Visit: $showstate3
> ---------------------------------------------
> Comments
> $comment
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Logged Info :
> ------------------------------
> Using: $HTTP_USER_AGENT
> Hostname: $ip
> IP address: $REMOTE_ADDR
> Date/Time: $date","FROM:$adminaddress");
>
> //This sends a confirmation to your visitor
> mail("$email","Thank You for visiting $sitename",
> "Hi $fname,\n
> We will process your request and send you a user name
and password within
> 48hrs.
> Thank you for your registering at $sitename!\n
>
> $sitename
> $siteaddress","FROM:$adminaddress");
>
> //Confirmation is sent back to the Flash form that the
process is complete
> $sendresult = "Thank you for comments and questions. You
will receive a
> confirmation email shortly.";
> $send_answer = "answer=";
> $send_answer .= rawurlencode($sendresult);
> echo "$send_answer";
>
>
>
>

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this["btn_projects" + count]._x = btn_xPos;
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lineTo(660, 2);
lineTo(0, 2);
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mclListener.onLoadComplete = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
progressBar_mc.removeMovieClip();
// Plays the loaded clip once it's fully loaded.
// If you want content to stream as it loads remove the following 3 lines
tellTarget(_root.img_project.img_holder){
play();
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// is inside another one img_project > img_holder.
var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
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// Populate the dynamic text fields on the main stage with the project title & description
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_root.prj_description = _root.descriptionsArray[arrayNumber];
// if the URL is present for this project, populate & show the link
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_root.btn_link.webAddress = _root.linksArray[arrayNumber];
_root.btn_link._visible = 1;
} else {
_root.btn_link._visible = 0;
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tellTarget("_root.btn_projects" + _root.curButton){
gotoAndPlay(1);
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stop();

No ideas at al guys?
I just need a couple of pointers as in what to code needs adding and where, I've created a new movie clip with the name subs (instance sub1), surely its now just a matter of connecting that instance to the sub_projects node in the xml - I guess it also needs to be linked to a parent project button + told to only run when that parent is clicked. I've downloaded loads of different code from various sources, but as there seem to be lots of different ways to write the same commands, its feeling really confusing.
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Hi,
In DBMS_JOBS_RUNNING you can find the sid of the session.
Use this sid to identify the session in v$session and kill the session with:
'alter system kill session 'sid,serial#';'
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OR
Before 10g, if you want to stop all jobs, you can simply set JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES to zero.
In 10g, Oracle intrduced scheduler_job with many advanced features.
In this post I do not want to deal with different features of scheduler_jobs.
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BEGIN
sys.dbms_scheduler.disable( '"schema?"."job name?"' );
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Best practice for class communication

Hi all,
I'm trying to get my head around how to communicate through scope. I hope/think this is a pretty basic question but I'm pretty stuck in the AS2 mentality.
To make a simple example, say I have 2 classes, ClassA and ClassB. ClassA loads an instance of ClassB:
package
public class ClassA
     private var _classB:ClassB;
     public function ClassA
         _classB:ClassB = new ClassB();
class ClassB {}
Now I want ClassB to communicate with ClassA. It's easy for ClassA to invoke a method on ClassB, _classB.somePublicMethod();, but how does ClassB communicate back up to ClassA?
I know one method is making a custom event and adding a listenor in ClassA that binds to ClassB while having ClassB dispatch that custom event. Is there any easier way I'm not aware of? Some kind of parent/super/etc method of talking to the class that instantiated ClassB?
edit:
Incase it matters or changes the approach someone would recommend, what I'm trying to do is make some touchscreen-esque scrolling functionality. The same stuff built into any smartphone. If you touch the screen and drag the touchscreen in certain contexts knows you want to scroll the information you're looking at. If you just tap something however it knows that you want to interact with what you tapped. That's what I'm trying to figure out how to do in as3.
I have a touchscreen and I have navigation that doesn't fit all on the same screen. I'm trying to allow the user to scroll the navigation up/down to see all of the options but also let the user tap a nav item to let them select it. So I'm making a reusable class that's pretty abstract on the concept of allowing me to point to an object and say this object can be clicked, but if the user drags they intend to scroll a display.
The actual end use of this is, as a personal learning exercise, I'm trying to duplicate a doodle/paint program my 3yr old son has in flash. He has a touchscreen laptop and he can scroll through a long list of artwork he can touch and it paints it on the screen. I'm trying to mimic that functionality where I try to determine if someone is trying to drag/scroll a list or select something in the list.
That said, in that context ClassA is the painting app and ClassB is a reuable class that's applied to a navigation area whose job is to inform ClassA if the user intends to drag or select something. I make my nav items in ClassA and then instantiate ClassB. Because I need to 'wait' until ClassB tells ClassA what the user is doing, it's not a return value type of situation. I have to wait for ClassB to figure out if the person is trying to click or drag, then communicate that back to ClassA so it knows how to handle it.

I will definitely use an event. I've never made a custom event but the top google search (always a blog) has good comments on the approach so I'm using this approach at it.
Anyone think that approach is bad/outdated/refineable?
edit:
Man, it's just one of those days. This is all working fine and well but I can honestly say in no project have I ever needed to make a custom event and I've been using flash since the early 90s with nothing but telltarget.....
I do have one question, because I (admittedly) spent a freaking hour (*sigh*) on trying to figure out why I'd dispatch an event and it wasn't picked up.
A quick psuedo example:
package{
public class ClassA {
    private var _classB:ClassB = new ClassB();
    public function ClassA() {
        this.addEventListener(CustomEvent.WHATEVER, _doSomething);
    // _doSomething func......
class ClassB {
    parent.dispatchEvent(CustomEvent(CustomEvent.WHATEVER, { foo:"bar" }));
class CustomEvent extends Event
    public static const WHATEVER:String = "whatever";
    public function CustomEvent(type:String, params:Object, bubbles:Boolean = false, cancelable:Boolean = false) {
            super(type, bubbles, cancelable);
            this.params = params;
     // clone/tostring overrides.....
Is it better symantics to do it that way with parent.dispatchEvent() or should I have done _classB.addEventListener(...) and then in ClassB I this.dispatchEvent()?
What screwed me up for an hour was I was just this.dispatchEvent() instead of parent.dispatchEvent() and the event was never seen in the parent. It (hindsight) makes obvious sense I need to dispatch the event in the scope of whatever is looking for the event but somehow that wasn't really explained to me in the tutorials (like I linked). Their examples made the event, listener and dispatcher in the same place. I'm dispatching the event from a separate class so it didn't occur to me I needed to send that event back to the scope the listener existed in... Oy.. vey....

Simple Action Script question

This is probably a very basic question, but going through all
my old Flash work didn't help me remember...
I have my animation starting on the main stage with an image
fading in. when that is done playing, at the end i want it to go to
a movie clip on the stage and play it from frame 2. what is the
action script for this?

Doesn't seem to be working... your_mc is the instance name of
the mc, correct? i placed this script in a frame - it's above where
my mc first appears and the initial animation on the stage ends. is
that correct?
stop();
tellTarget(mc_square-grid){
gotoAndPlay(2);
When I test the movie, the initial animation plays then
stops, but the MC does not start playing. and the following error
message appears:
Target not found: Target="NaN" Base="_level0"
quote:
Originally posted by:
ActionScripter1
tellTarget(your_mc){
gotoAndPlay(2);

Multiple click points for one button and movie clip

I am trying to make a single button into a multiple click
point. I have a movie clip on the stage and I have an invisible
button over it. The movie clip consists of a single timeline that
has an ambient animation running and looping intially. I have three
more labeled sections of that timeline that each contain a
different animated sequence as click point animations for that
movie clip. I want the user to click on the button on the stage and
the first labeled click point animation of that movie clip will
play. I want that action to be stored so that when the user clicks
again then the second labeled click point animation will play then
they will click for the third in the same way. In between user
clicks I want the ambient animation loop in the beginning of that
movie clip timeline to play. When the user has clicked the 3rd and
last animated sequence then the whole thing will reset and be
available again. Can anyone let me know how that can be
accomplished. I originally scripted it through tell target to play
the first but I don't know how to move forward. Thanks!

What version of Flash are you using? Telltarget is very
old... try something like this:
// array of the animations
myAnims = ['firstAnim','secondAnim','thirdAnim']; // these
are also frame labels
// your current animation index in the array, arrays start at
0,
// so we start at -1 which is like before anything
currAnim = -1;
// function to play the next animation
function nextAnim(){
// add one to the current animation index
currAnim++;
// if you've reached the end of the array, start back at 0
if(currAnim >= myAnims.length)currAnim = 0;
// now tell the MovieClip to play based on the value of the
current array index
myMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(myAnims[currAnim]);
Then on the button you just put:
on(release){
nextAnim();
And at the end of each animation on the timeline, put:
gotoAndPlay(1);
And at the end of the ambient loop at the beginning I guess
you have that, too, so it loops.
Hope that helps

TellTarget

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