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Subject: Re: FLASH: addressing variable in movie clip
From: David Owen
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:17:16 +0100

Thanks John-

Your suggestion of 3 frames with an embedded loop did the trick. Am I to
understand then that one must always engineer some sort of loop when
checking for th value of a variable?

Thanks again

Owen

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>From: John Croteau <croteauaterols [dot] com>
>To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>Subject: Re: FLASH: addressing variable in movie clip
>Date: Thu, Oct 28, 1999, 1:17 AM
>

> Hi David,
>
>> I have a button on stage which does this:
>> On (Release)
>> Set Variable: "/blu_mc:blu" = 1
>> End On
> The above is fine
>
>> where blu_mc is the movie clip and blu is a variable inside the movie clip.
>> The movie clip has a frame action which says:
>> Set Variable: "blu" = blu
> Delete the above this make blu equal to blu - quite unneccessary.
>
>> If (blu = 1)
>> Go to and Stop (2)
>> End If
> If there are no other frames in the MC and no stop actions then the MC
> will loop constantly and will stop in frame 2 when the button is
> pressed.
>
> You might rather change the action of the frame 1 action to go to frame
> 3 when blu is 1:
>
>> If (blu = 1)
>> Go to and Stop (3)
>> End If
>
> Then create a loop between frame 1 and 2 with this in frame 2:
>
> Go to and Play (1)
>
> Now the condition is being constantly rechecked (in frame 1) to see if
> blu is 1 (the result of the button being pressed) and will go to frame 3
> when it is.
>
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