Re: FLASH: Making screensavers on Mac - Flash 4 on MacOS 8.5 -ActionScript blues

[Helen Triolo]

Toon Van de Putte wrote:

> 

> ...scenes, i've let the buttons set a variable 'selected' to a value ("tv1"

> through "tv4"), so the movie can play a transitional sequence without

> losing information about which button the user clicked. Now, this doesn't

> seem to be working. I'm wondering if i'm setting the variables in a way

> that is incorrect. The buttons each contain the following ActionScript:

> 

> On (Roll Over)

>        Begin Tell Target ("/titles")

>              Go to and Stop (2)

>        End Tell Target

> End On

> On (Roll Out)

>        Begin Tell Target ("/titles")

>              Go to and Stop (1)

>        End Tell Target

> End On

> On (Release)

>        Begin Tell Target ("/ctr")

>              Set Variable: "selected" = "tv1"

>        End Tell Target

>        Play

> End On


for this you can just say

 On (Release)

       Set Variable: "/ctr:selected" = "tv1"

       Play (or maybe a Goto and play?)

 End On

(because the button is on the main timeline, right?)

> 

> The rollover and rollout are used to control a movie clip that contains the

> titles of all the different sections of the movie, the movie clip "/ctr" is

> an empty clip in the main timeline that i use to store the variable

> 'selected'. I tried setting it in the main timeline, but that didn't work.

> In fact, nothing has worked so far. Anyone know what i'm doing wrong? The

> code that, later on in the movie, checks the 'selected' variable, is this:

> 

> If (/ctr:selected = "tv1")

>        Go to and Play (diensten en tarieven, 1)

> End If

> If (/ctr:selected = "tv2")

>        Go to and Play (wie en waar, 1)

> End If

> If (/ctr:selected = "tv3")

>        Go to and Play (portfolio, 1)

> End If

> If (/ctr:selected = "tv4")

>        Go to and Play (help en support, 1)

> End If

> Stop


For the above, you need a string comparison (eq, not =), eg

If (/ctr:selected eq "tv4")

      Go to and Play (help en support, 1)

End If


I don't know if those will fix all your problems, but they might help. 

I don't about Mac screensavers or OS, sorry.


Regards,

Helen

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