Macromedia® Flash™ MX 2004 ActionScript: Training from the Source

Chapter 3. Understanding Target Paths

Communication is an important part of our everyday lives. We communicate by telephone, email, postal mail, and so on. Because nearly everyone communicates in a similar fashion, without a system of individual identification it would be impossible to route those communications from one person to another. We have unique phone numbers, email addresses, and street addresses—all of which to help ensure that communication intended for us actually reaches us.

Just as phone numbers, email addresses, and street addresses lead communication to its intended recipient, Macromedia Flash target paths lead one timeline to another, allowing them to communicate. In this lesson, we'll take a look at the target paths used in typical ...