FLASH: Tell Target Looping to Wait for Variable Loading

[DeJarnett, Gary]

Since not everyone is needing to load values into Flash, I hate to beat this

thing to death, but I�m having trouble getting Flash to hold up it�s

execution until my variables are loaded.


It shouldn�t be difficult, but here is what I�m doing.  I have a variable

within my Library instance called FinishedLoading which is initialized to 0,

and set to 1 from my ASP page after all other variables have been loaded.  I

also have an instance (called �Timer�) of a movie clip (called movTimeCount)

on my main movie which displays a clock with hands circling every time the

clip is played.  Here are the frames of this movie:


Frame 1: Stop


Frame 2: labeled TimerRepeat


Frame 13: 	If (/Library:FinishedLoading = 0)

     			Go to and Play ("TimerRepeat")

		End If


Whenever I am ready to load my ASP variables, I execute the following:


            Set Variable: "/Library:FinishedLoading" = 0

            Load Variables ("getProj.asp", "/Library", vars=POST)

            Begin Tell Target ("/Timer")

                  Go to and Play ("TimerRepeat")

            End Tell Target


The way I understand things, the code within my Tell Target should continue

to execute until all my variables are loaded, THEN proceed to the code after

the End Tell Target statement.  That is not what is happening.  I�ve

confirmed by trace statements that, even though the /Timer target is

executed, Flash keeps right on executing code after the End Tell Target

before the variables have had a chance to load.  What am I missing or not

understanding here?


As always, thanks for your help.  Maybe someday I can return the favor if I

can ever get this stuff down.


Gary (

dejarnettttu [dot] edu

 <

dejarnettttu [dot] edu (mailto:dejarnettttu [dot] edu)

> )




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