RE: FLASH: Password Variables--Help?

[Paul Willoughby]

Justin wrote:

>

>Sorry if this is a double-post. My last email didn't seem to go through.


>I wonder if someone could help me with setting up the variables required to

>enable 500-600 user names and passwords. The password will be the same for

>everyone, but the user names will be a name followed by a number (ie,

>"Alpha001", "Alpha002",...and so on, up to "Alpha500"). So it would look

>something like this:


>UserName=Alpha001-500

>Password=password (same for every user)


You could set up a loop to check through every user name like this:


Stop

Set Variable: "Count" = "0"

Set Variable: "Password" = "password"

Set Variable: "OK" = ""

Loop While (Count < 500)

      Set Variable: "Count" = Count + 1

      Set Variable: "NextUser" = "alpha" & Count

      If (PasswordBox eq Password and UserName eq NextUser)           

            Set Variable: "OK" = "Yes"

      End If

End Loop

If (OK eq "Yes")

      Set Variable: "Message" = "You're IN"

Else

      Set Variable: "Message" = "You're OUT"

End If


I checked this and it worked. UserName and PasswordBox are the text fields.

I set them up in the first frame of the movie with a stop action. A submit

button sends the movie to the next frame where the above actions are carried

out. However this is only going to work if all the user names literally

begin with "alpha"! If all the names are going to be different I don't know

what you'd do. If you restricted the name to say, 5 characters, you could

probably set up a text file that you could loop search through using a

Substring function. Also, for this to work you'll have to lose the leading

zeroes (i.e. 001. 002 etc.)


hTh


Paul



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