[flasher] Flash 4 AS troubles

[Jules]

Hi all. I've got a problem that I've come across before in Flash 4 AS, I was

wondering if anyone has any suggestions / fix / workaround for it


the code I'm using is


Set Variable: "ran" = random (28)

If ("/:"&ran <> 1)

      Begin Tell Target ("/squareFall"&ran)

            Go to and Play (2)

      End Tell Target

End If

Set Variable: "/:"&ran = "1"


This code is called when an object is clicked (a bubble).


 There are 27 squareFall movie clips at the root level, each subsequentialy

numbered (squareFall0, squareFall1 etc). The Set varible command at the end

of the code generates a varible at the root called whatever ran is (if ran

=26, then the varible will be called 26). The if command is supposed to

check whether this varible (/:26 for example) equals 1, if so that movie

clip will not be triggered again. Eventually this whole shebang will be put

into a loop, so it keeps going until it finds a number that hasn't been

used.


The problem seems to lie in the if command :If ("/:"&ran <> 1), the

concatinated varible just isn't behaving as I am expecting it too, any

suggestions?


Thanks a lot


Jules