When at certain frame in the timeline

I have a lable layer. On frame 20, where I lable it
frmChanged. So here's what I'm trying to do. When the play head is
at frmChange or frame 20, I want to change the alpha of a
movieClip, mcButton, to 100. How do I do this in action
script?

ljCharlie wrote:
> Many thanks for the response. I did try that but it
didn't work. Here's what I
> did. On frame 20, I click on the action script layer and
press F9. The action
> script window came up but it came up with the code that
I've created in frame
> 1. It's not giving me the frame 20 location action
script window.
you need to add frame in order to attach action to it,
otherwise it will be
always going to the nearest frame on timeline - to your left.
What we do is make one layer call Label/Actions on top of all
the other layers.
Empty w/o any content. Than attach actions and labels to it.
It's easy to find
anything later on while authoring. So, in order to attach
action, select frame 20
and hit F7 - insert blank frame, than placed that action.
> Second issue, instead of putting the action script on
frame 20, is there a way
> to put all my action script on one place like frame one
but still be able to
> control the events on any frame an layer?
Sure possible but this could be problematic if project gets
to complex with too
many movie clips levels of interactivity. Sometimes the
easiest works best.
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Urami
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