FLASH: help with drop down menu

[simon mills]

Hi,


I'm tring to create a drop down menu in Flash 4 as part of a form akin to

the drop downs used in an html form.


So far I have bastardized the combo box that comes as standard in Flash 4

so I can actually create a variable from each of the menu items and this

variable appears in the text box. However what I can't do is get this

variable to be used in an equation with other variables on the form.


So I have two other variables on the form and , x and y, and I can add

these together to appear as variable z which is diplayed in another text

field. However, the variable created in my drop down refuses to be added to

x,y or z. Why can't I use it?


Has anyone else had problems like this?


Are there any good tutorials out there on how to pass a value from a drop

down menu ?


It all seems straightforward but it just won't work. Any help would be much

appreciated.


best,


SAM





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