This clarified things for me as well; thanks Sarah.

I am also new to JS and Jquery.  How would you target the parent of a nested symbol from the child of that symbol.  And also...  how would you then target an alternate nested symbol of the parent... and ultimately the child of that nested symbol... if you see what I mean

I have a button on the stage and wish to have another symbol(Symbol A) change position (tween) when the button is pressed.  At the same time I wish to start the timeline of one of Symbol A's nested symbols.

Getting myself notted up with the syntax.

Hope you can help.

Thanks

Andrew

Thanks Sarah,

I will give it a go...

If an element is on the stage... for example a button (but1) .  Can you reference a symbol (symbol1) on the stage directly... so:

sym.getSymbol("symbol1").play();

or do you have to go back up to the composition and stage levels for any symbol on the stage.?

Andrew

Love new features for which most of us shower you with kudos from all sides... that said you know we are a bunch of demanding scoundrels! ;D

So, in the interest of moving past the congratulatory phase for a milestone worthy of a good pat on the shoulder for a job well done...

- I wish there was a more visual way to target all existing symbols and elements without having to do all the singing and dancing each time... could be (or not) similart to the targeting in flash although I'd prefer a dropdown listing all the "targetable" elements and symbols (absolute and relative). That would be a really a huge help to avoid the trial and error process that is needed each time to get the target to respond to the properties being added or code being attached.

- I also wish that Edge had a way to autocomplete instructions with multiple selectable suggestions (like in intelliJ IDEA et sim IDEs) where code from the linked APIs (Edge, jQuery, custom added ones) would be selectable as the code is being typed by triggering the autocomplete using a modifier key

- Also snippets that could be reused over and over could prove very helpful... is there a way (other than keeping a manual archive in a commented-out code on an unused symbol) tha could serve that purpose?

Lastly I've found scoping issues and I don't know if that has anything to do with targeting... but for instance, I could not define and use variables in a symbol unless I had declared on the stage on creationComplete. Just to give you an example: I could not do a simple var myVar=0; myVar++; alert (myVar); "inside" a symbol used as a button responding to a click event. Using the letter "i" withing that click event (since "i" it's likely already declared somewhere in the javascript API, would be perfectly fine as long as not "re-declaring it" using "var". The variable myVar could be used without issues once declaring it on Stage upon creationComplete as var myVar = 0;

...and as usual thanks for keeping up the awesome work!

Cheers

tfbkny