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Subject: Re: FLASH: addressing variable in movie clip
From: David Owen
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:38:49 +0100

Thanks John- You're a gentleman and a scholar. This is exactly the kind of
conceptual information I was needing. I had assumed that the variable was
just sitting there politely waiting for the button press. I see now how it
works. 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, 7:00 PM
>

> Hi David,,
>
>> 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?
> Of course not. But you can't check something before it happens.
>
> The If check in the original was made before a button could possibly be
> pressed.
> Though the variable will be set immediately the procedure to check it
> was already done.
> There are a lot of ways to see that the test is made after the button
> was pressed. A constant loop is just one way.
>
>> >> If (blu = 1)
>> >> Go to and Stop (2)
>> >> End If
>
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