just learning "tell target" help please

[jeffhtx01]

I have a button that has the following script.
on (press) {
tellTarget ("applimovie") {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
on a seperate layer I have a movie titled "applimovie". Please don't laugh,
but is that it? Somehow I'm afraid I have missed something. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

[Pea]

Hi,

Depending on what version of flash you have, don't use tellTarget. Its not used much anymore.

Instead, try:
on (press) {
applimovie.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

[Laiverd.COM]

hmm, does it work? If so; then what's the question.

John

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[CesareRocchi]

From the doc:

tellTarget

Availability

Flash Player 3. (Deprecated in Flash 5; use of dot notation and the with action is recommended.)

HTH,

-c.

[Laiverd.COM]

Yes I know, but I gave up on advising people not to use the old syntax and
especially if they start mixing it with dot.syntax. Other than that it still
is true that tellTarget is better in terms of performance than dot-notation
([url]http://www.gotoandplay.it/_articles/2004/01/as_optimizations_p03.php[/url]). And
when the time comes that tellTarget is no longer supported by the
player,well, we'll deal with that when the time comes.

John

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