FLASH: Radio Buttons setting a variable

[Pete Grant]

Today, my greatest accomplishment was being able to give Dry Cat Food to a

wet cat.


Tomorrow might not even be as good if I can't get the my radio buttons to

set a variable.


I'm using the basic radio button setup in Libraries->Radiobutton.  I've been

reading the tutorial on

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/interactivity/widgets/ and  still

not getting the whole picture.


I have two instances of RadioButtonContainer ("top" and "bottom") and 3

buttons in each. I want to find out which button has been pressed and put

the number (1,2, or 3--which are also the instance names of the MCs imbedded

in the RadioButtonContainer) into vars "top" and "bottom" so I can do

arithmetic with them, then drive a fairly elaborate MC.


The radio button script is basic and covered pretty much line-by-line in the

above-referenced URL:

On (Press)

      Set Variable: "numChildren" = ..:numChildren

      Set Variable: "counter" = 1

      Loop While (counter <= numChildren)

            Set Variable: "arrayElement" = "..:child_" & counter

            Set Variable: "control" = Eval (arrayElement)

            Begin Tell Target (control)

                  Go to and Stop (1)

            End Tell Target

            Set Variable: "counter" = counter + 1

      End Loop

      Set Variable: "..:selected" = _target

      Go to and Stop (2)


      Comment: here's what I added


      Set Variable: "/:pressed" = _target

      Call ("/:Decisions")

End On


The first thing "Decisions" does is call "Pressed to top or bottom" which

starts like this:


If (/top:pressed="/top/1")

      Trace ("top 1")

      Set Variable: "/:top" = 1

Else If (/top:pressed="/top/2")

      Trace ("top 2")

      Set Variable: "/:top" = 2


     ...and so on


End If



The variable "pressed" gets sent OK and is in the above format, like

"/top/3". But, in "Pressed to top or bottom", whatever gets evaluated first

gets evaluated as true. (I can drag /bottom/3 up to the top and it will set

bottom=3--always.)


Any help would be vastly beneficial to my sanity and that of those around

me, if there are any around me. I haven't looked lately.


Best regards,


Pete Grant

www.petegrant.com




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