Re: FLASH: help with drop down menu

[John Croteau]

Hi Simon,


> 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.

To use a variable that is creted in a movie click you must address it

with its path followed by a colon followed by the variable.


An easier way to to set the variables in the movie clips to be assigned

to the main timeline.


So in the MCs set the variables  as   /:var1  /:var2  /:var3


On the main timeline you can now refer to the variables as var1 var2

var3


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