FLASH: RE: inconsistency in loading variables

[Tobie Kerridge]

Hi Anders,


I had this problem. The only way I could get round it in 100% of browsers

was to use the "stub" movie idea from director. Its not very elegant, but it

works.


When someone click on your navigation and you need to reflect a change in

area, reload one of your 12 stub movies with:


Get URL stub3.htm


This html page embeds the 3rd of 12 swf movies. Each of theses movies has

the same size and background colour as your main movie, and contains just 1

frame with a frame action. They are very tiny in file size:


Set Variable: "currentSection" = "3"

Load Movie ("mainMovie.swf", 1)


The value for "currentSection" is the only thing that differs between all

the stub movies in this case I use 3. When the main movie is loaded in level

1, there is another action script in the first frame of that movie to pick

up the "currentSection" value:


Set Variable: "goToLabel" = eval("_level0:currentSection")


then go do a label in the scene to reflect current area (You could do

whatever you wanted with the variable to and reflect the state of current

action):


If (eval("goToLabel") = 1)

      Go to and Play ("section1LabelName")

Else If (eval("goToLabel") = 2)

      Go to and Play ("section2LabelName")

Else If (eval("goToLabel") = 3)

      Go to and Play ("sectio31LabelName")

(((etc. for each of the 12 options)))

End If


There you are. Very long winded, I'm sure there is a more efficient way of

doing it, but it works. I used it in a frameset situation.


cheers




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To: flasher-digestchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: flasher-digest V1 #3027

>Date: Mon, May 15, 2000, 4:47 pm

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> FLASH: inconsistency in loading variables


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