To use an action to control a movie clip or loaded movie, you must specify its name and its address, called a target path.
In ActionScript you identify a movie clip by its instance name. For example, in the following statement, the _alpha
property of the movie clip named star
is set to 50% visibility:
star._alpha = 50;
To give a movie clip an instance name:
To identify a loaded movie:
_level
X
, where X
is the level number specified in the loadMovie
action that loaded the movie.For example, a movie loaded into level 5 has the target path _level5
. In the following example, a movie is loaded into level 5 and its visibility is set to false
:
onClipEvent(load) { loadMovieNum("myMovie.swf", 5); } onClipEvent(enterFrame) { _level5._visible = false; }
To enter a movie's target path:
For more information about writing target paths, see Handling Events.