Since when does ActionScript 1.0 not work right?

[ChrisFlynn]

Am I wrong in thinking the following code on a button in Flash MX 2004 should
control a MovieClip called "greekTxt"?

on(rollOver){
_root.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(10);
}

on(rollOut){
_root.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(25);
}

Because, right now, it doesn't. Even when I set the publish settings for
actionscript 1.0, it still doesn't work. This is very frustrating.

Everything is spelled correctly and in theory this should work correctly.

But am I doing something wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chris

[James Fee]

Is the movie Forms/Screens based or Timeline Based?
Also, are you sure that the movie "greekTxt" is attached to _root?
I would run in debug and take a look at the tree structure of your movie and
see what "greekTxt" is actually attached too.

Jim

"ChrisFlynn" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c22c62$o7v$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Am I wrong in thinking the following code on a button in Flash MX 2004

should

> control a MovieClip called "greekTxt"?
>
> on(rollOver){
> _root.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(10);
> }
>
> on(rollOut){
> _root.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(25);
> }
>
> Because, right now, it doesn't. Even when I set the publish settings for
> actionscript 1.0, it still doesn't work. This is very frustrating.
>
> Everything is spelled correctly and in theory this should work correctly.
>
> But am I doing something wrong?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>

[abeall]

Where is 'greekTxt' located? Where are the buttons located? What exactly does
"it doesn't work" mean? It won't play at all? It won't paly the rollOut all the
time?

From what you posted, as long as you haven't forgotten to give your MC an
instance name of 'greekTxt' (I do that from time to time :) and 'greekTxt' is
on the _root timeline, then it should work. If your buttons are also on the
_root timeline, I would go ahead and take out the _root references from the
gotoAndPlay()s.

[ChrisFlynn]

To answer the questions, the MC "greekTxt" is named as such and appears on the
stage of the movie. I ran a debug on this file and greekTxt doesn't seem to
appear under _root for some reason. This may be the problem, but I don't know
why it wouldn't show up there, its right on the stage.

This is a timeline based Flash.

I tried removing the _root references in the code, but that didn't work either.

And what I mean by not working is that when I rollover or out of this button,
'greekTxt' doesn't do anything. Its supposed to animate when I roll in and out
of it.

Any more help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chris

[David Stiller]

Chris,

Is it possible you're confusing "instance name" with "symbol name"? The
movie clip itself in your Library may be called greekTxt, but that's not
what makes this kind of thing work.

The Library item is a symbol (button, graphic, movie clip -- in this
case, a movie clip), and you must grab an instance of this symbol and drag
it to the stage. You've done that.

Now, select that instance and give it an instance name (see your
Properties panel). Make the instance name greekTxt.


David
stiller( at ) quip ( dot ) net

[jerreye04]

The only time I have ever had such a problem, is when I accidentally set my
"MC" to a "Graphic" symbol.

Maybe your "greekTxt" MC was set to a Graphic symbol. In this case, it
obviously wouldn't work.

Just a hunch.

[ChrisFlynn]

As far as I know, everything is correct on my end (that I can tell).

I'm not confusing symbol names with instance names. My instance of my MC is
named as it should be, "greekTxt".

When I debug, the MC might be there, but its not recognised by its instance
name, I don't know why this is.

Is there some new setting I'm missing in MX 2004 in order to make this work?

Thanks
Chris

[James Fee]

When you looked in the debugger, what was it attached to?

Jim

"ChrisFlynn" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c22lld$9cu$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> As far as I know, everything is correct on my end (that I can tell).
>
> I'm not confusing symbol names with instance names. My instance of my MC

is

> named as it should be, "greekTxt".
>
> When I debug, the MC might be there, but its not recognised by its

instance

> name, I don't know why this is.
>
> Is there some new setting I'm missing in MX 2004 in order to make this

work?

>
> Thanks
> Chris
>

[ChrisFlynn]

Now I'm finding if I select the instance of greekTxt, on my stage, NAMED
greekTxt in the Properties dialog box and attach this code to it:

onClipEvent(load){
trace(this._name);
}

I'm expecting when I test this movie within Flash, when this frmae loads, the
Output box should pop with the word greekTxt in it. Instead "undefined" is
written there.

This is very basic scripting. They couldn't of changed it this much, could
they??!!!

What am I doing wrong here? Anybody?

I am very frustrated by this!!!

[jerreye04]

If the following is in order, then there is no reason why it should not work:

- Is your button events actually on a BUTTON and not on a FRAME?
- Is "greekTXT" a MOVIE CLIP symbol?
- Is the "greekTXT" MC animated? If so, maybe you didn't set the instance name
on EVERY KEYFRAME where "greekTXT" exists. This can happen if you don't set the
instance name of the clip before you start animating it on the timeline. If you
did not, then this will definately cause problems.
- Have you tried: _level0.greekTXT.gotoAndPlay(10); ? "_root " targets the
main timeline of the LEVEL in question. If you are loading levels, then your
_root may be the wrong timeline to target.

If the above is all in order, then maybe your software is corrupted. Try
reinstalling Flash.

[ChrisFlynn]

This doesn't work:

on(rollOver){
_root.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(10);
}

However this does:

on(rollOver){
this.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(10);
}

Why???

[jerreye04]

If that is the case, then that would tell me that your BUTTON rests on the same
timeline as greekTXT, and that greekTXT is NOT on the _root timeline, otherwise
_root.greekTxt.gotoAndPlay(10); should work.

Maybe there is some other issues that you aren't aware of...Send me the fla
(zipped and under 1 MB) if you want to at: [email]jerreye@yahoo.com[/email]

If it is larger than 1 MB, then zip it and put it on your web server and email
me the link.

I'll see if I can find the problem.

[James Fee]

Try just the following:

onClipEvent(load){
trace(this);
}

that should give you the full path to your object.

Jim

"ChrisFlynn" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c22muv$b99$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Now I'm finding if I select the instance of greekTxt, on my stage, NAMED
> greekTxt in the Properties dialog box and attach this code to it:
>
> onClipEvent(load){
> trace(this._name);
> }
>
> I'm expecting when I test this movie within Flash, when this frmae loads,

the

> Output box should pop with the word greekTxt in it. Instead "undefined" is
> written there.
>
> This is very basic scripting. They couldn't of changed it this much,

could

> they??!!!
>
> What am I doing wrong here? Anybody?
>
> I am very frustrated by this!!!
>

[ChrisFlynn]

Well, as it turns out, the problem I was having was because I had a bad install
of Flash on my machine.

I uninstalled it, then reinstalled, and everything seems to be working fine
now.

I apologize for all the frustartion.

Thanks
Chris