FLASH: more variable issues

[mhogan]

ok, I need this to work in this order....when a user clicks a button, it

should set a variable w/in the variables movieclip, then that variable

should be compared w/ a variable w/in the movie clip...here's the

code...help please

button action

On (Press) 

     Trace ("correctanswer=?")

     Call ("/variables:checkquestion")

     Call ("/variables:answerquestion")

End On 

On (Release) 

     Set Variable: "/variables:correctanswer" = "mike"

End On 

check question frame action

Comment: this is working

Set Variable: "count" = Random(103)

Trace ("count") 

Set Variable: "current" = count

Trace ("current") 

Set Variable: "currentanswer" = Eval ( "a" & current)

Trace ("currentanswer")

Set Variable: "Randomquestion" = Eval  ( "q"  & current)

Trace ("randomquestion")

Set Variable: "currentstatus" =  "b"  & Int(current)

answer question frame action

Trace ("is this working")

Set Variable: "/:text" = Randomquestion

If (currentanswer eq correctanswer)

     Trace ("checking for correct answer")

     Set Variable:  (MBSubstring(("b"  & Int(current)),0,5)) = "false"

     Trace ("setting b to false")

     Set Variable: "answerquestion" = Eval ("b"  & current)

Else 

     Set Variable: "answerquestion" = "true"

     Trace ("answerquestion=true")

End If 

Trace ("/text") 

Set Variable: "i" = "1"

Loop While (i<104) 

     If (answerquestion eq "true")

           Trace ("checking")

           Set Variable: "../:text" = Substring(Randomquestion,1,50)

           Trace ("get the question")

           Set Variable: "a" = Eval("b"&"i")

           Trace ("evaluating true/false statement")

     End If 

     Set Variable: "i" = i+1

End Loop 

Stop 



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