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Newbie Flash Question
I've been working with Flash MX for about four days now after reading a book, and downloaded a menu system. This menu system can be found at:
http://virtual-fx.net/vfx/tutorial/tutorial7_51_20020101.php
I used Ctrl-L to open up the Library to edit a Movie Clip (Menu1). In the Title Button Layer, I right-clicked on the title button so I could see the actions for this button. The actions were as follow:
on (release) {
../:menu_num = "1";
call("../:down");
gotoAndStop("down");
}
I understand what Call (now deprecated) and gotoAndStop mean. But I don't understand the reference "../:menu_num" or "../:down". I have an old Flash 4 book laying around that's not really giving me the answer I need.
I'm aware that menu_num is a variable (as defined in Scene 1 - Actions Layer) and that Up/Down are frame labels that can be used as arguments to gotoAndStop/gotoAndPlay functions.
If any of you can help me out and tell me what the "../:var_name" means, it'd be greatly appreciated.
I'm guessing that it's like a relative reference. Kind of like how you would refer to a file in a parent directory.
http://virtual-fx.net/vfx/tutorial/tutorial7_51_20020101.php
I used Ctrl-L to open up the Library to edit a Movie Clip (Menu1). In the Title Button Layer, I right-clicked on the title button so I could see the actions for this button. The actions were as follow:
on (release) {
../:menu_num = "1";
call("../:down");
gotoAndStop("down");
}
I understand what Call (now deprecated) and gotoAndStop mean. But I don't understand the reference "../:menu_num" or "../:down". I have an old Flash 4 book laying around that's not really giving me the answer I need.
I'm aware that menu_num is a variable (as defined in Scene 1 - Actions Layer) and that Up/Down are frame labels that can be used as arguments to gotoAndStop/gotoAndPlay functions.
If any of you can help me out and tell me what the "../:var_name" means, it'd be greatly appreciated.
I'm guessing that it's like a relative reference. Kind of like how you would refer to a file in a parent directory.
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Nevermind, negatyve
I figured it out by reading another book that explains it in more detail. However, I'll give you half the points for your answer.
I figured it out by reading another book that explains it in more detail. However, I'll give you half the points for your answer.
ASKER
Makes sense, but why the colon before the var_name?
Is it similar to the . (period) prefacing a file which would mean a file in the current directory?