From time to time the tip of the day will highlight one of the new custom Generator objects released on the Macromedia Flash / Generator Exchange.

Today’s object is the Insert Action Object.

This objects allows the user to dynamically insert certain Flash 4 Action Script commands into a Flash movie.

The commands that you can insert include :

• goto (Frame)
• goto (label)
• stop
• play

The object uses a Column data source, which each row specifying an action to be inserted. Among other things, you can specify which frame the action gets inserted on, and which movie clip / timeline the action targets.

You may download the object from here.

You may view all of the Generator objects at here:

Just choose “Generator” from the drop down navigation / select box.