Re: FLASH: Setting Veriables

[Cheri Harder]

I am having trouble understanding things today, so bear with me.  You have a

button in your main movie that you want ONLY to work if the first child

movie is complete, yes?  (You know, you could have the first child load the

second one when it's done, but that isn't what you've asked, so I'll ignore

that...)  Do you want it to show up and just not have anything to "do" until

the other movie is finished?  Or do you want it to not even show up until

the end of the other?  It would be better if it didn't show up unless it has

something to do...


But I digress.  I can kind of see what you were trying to do, but the loop

doesn't work that way.  You don't have anything inside the loop..nothing for

it to loop "doing."  I don't know how to explain this, somebody help me out,

here!


Other things I noticed:  I don't know if the spelling error is a typo here,

or in your code, but "continue" is misspelled.  Also, you need to refer to

the variable by the correct path, in this case, something like

"_level3:continue" maybe?  But I still don't think the loop is gonna work

this way.  You need to make the "movie" loop if you want to continually

check on a variable, not put a loop inside one frame.


Something like this:


frame 13 action:


IF "_level3:continue" EQ "true"

  go to and play frame 14

ELSE

  go to and play frame 12

END IF


frame 14 has the code to load the new movie...


frame 12 just loops back through the variable check at frame 13 again, and

so on...

That is not "real" code, I didn't check for syntax or quotes, etc, but to

give you the idea of the kind of loop you should use...


I hope this helps, sorry if it is even more confusing, had too much caffeine

today!


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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> I'm trying to set a variable in the beginning and end of a movie, where I

> try to set the variable "continue" to false, and at the end to true. Then

in

> a parent movie, I have a button that is suppose to load another child

movie,

> but not until the variable is true.

>

> This is what I have for the button,

>

> On (Release)

>       Begin Tell Target ("_level14")

>             Go to and Play ("goodbyebeauty")

>       End Tell Target

>       Begin Tell Target ("_level15")

>             Go to and Play ("goodbyecopy")

>       End Tell Target

>       Begin Tell Target ("_level12")

>             Go to and Play ("goodbyetitle")

>       End Tell Target

>       Loop While (Eval (continute) = "False")

>       End Loop

>       Load Movie ("products/nato/nato.swf", 3)

> End On

>




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