Replicating Tutorial 28

[Dave]

Arg. I'm trying to reproduce Tutorial 28 with my own button and movie clip, but after hours of tooling, it still isn't working.

The main timeline has a button layer and a main movie clip layer.

My button has this action:

on (release) {
main.attachMovie("textclip", "clip1", 1);
}

My main movie clip instance has the instance name "main".

The MC that is supposed to load when you click the button has the identifier name "textclip" and the Linkage radio button is "Export this symbol".

I should be done, right?

Thanks in advance for piercing my thick skull.

DAVE

[Jesse]

sounds good to me. put the fla up somewhere and we'll take a look.

[Dave]

Thanks for the response. I did finally get it to work by starting from scratch again. After messing with the same fla for so long, I must have introduced a mistake somehow behind-the-scenes.

I discovered, though, that the clip I'm attaching using "attachMovie" takes on the same RGB effects that I applied to the instance of the MC that my new clip is loading "on" to. Is there a way to override this? Or would I have to attach my second MC to a different MC that doesn't have special effects applied to it?

Thanks again.

DAVE

[Jesse]

I think you'd have to attach it to something else...