Relative Scroll

[anthonygatto]

Hello,
I am doing a similar movie to the Relative Scroll tutorial and the difference is with my movie my buttons reside inside of another movie clip. I use the same target actionon
(release) {
/photos:target = 1;
director ();
}
Nothing happens! I tried a with action and still nothing.What could I be doing wrong. Thanks

AnthonyGatto

[farafiro]

note that the director() is a function, so u should assign it first

[anthonygatto]

Thanks for the advise. I figured it out though...well I lucked out, but now there is a new problem! Here is the script I used to make it work:
on (release) {
tellTarget("photos")
with (_root/photos) {
/photos:target = 4;
director();
}
}

It works great. The only problem is when I load this movie into my main movie it doesn't work at all! It's probably something so small I can't see it, but hope someone out there can.
Remember this entire movie is on _level2 of the main movie....if that helps.

Thanks soooooo much.
AnthonyGatto

[farafiro]

two things, first for your code
tellTarget and /: was to be used in flash 4, replaced by the dot syntax in flash 5+
with : makes all to scope what in the (), so no need to target it again
so, do this[as]on (release) {
_root.photos.target = 4;
director();
}[as]now, when u press the button, the target will change and will call the director() function
but wait a minute, we want these two things (the "target" variable and the function "director()") to be called when launching the swf file
so we need also to put them in the first fram

[farafiro]

two things, first for your code
tellTarget and /: was to be used in flash 4, replaced by the dot syntax in flash 5+
with : makes all to scope what in the (), so no need to target it again
so, do thison (release) {
_root.photos.target = 4;
director();
}now, when u press the button, the target will change and will call the director() function
but wait a minute, we want these two things (the "target" variable and the function "director()") to be called when launching the swf file
so we need also to put them in the first frame

[anthonygatto]

Hey,

I changed the script and I still have nothing. Here is the script that is attached to the scroll movie on frame 1

/photos:target = 1;
/photos:direction = "f";
function director () {
if (/photos:target</photos:current) {

/photos:direction = "b";
} else if (/photos:target>/photos:current) {

.bar:direction = "f";
} else if (/photos:target==/photos:current) {
.photos:direction = "null";
}
goto = (String(/photos:direction+/photos:current));
trace (goto);
photos.gotoAndPlay(goto);
}
It's exactly the script from the tut but like I said the buttons that control it are on a seperate MC. And when it is tested in the browser it works but when I load this .swf on another level it doesn't work:(. Thanks for your time.

AnthonyGatto

[farafiro]

first change the code from flash 4 code
and
post the fla