Re: FLASH: Help! Get variables from other movie clips?

[Muzak]

Most of the time, when I need loaded variables in different places (MC's) I load them in the main timeline and call them for the

MC's themselves.


So, if the main timeline has these loaded variables:


var1="blah"

var2="more blah"

var3="lotsa blah"


and you have 3 MC's (mc1-mc2-mc3) with 1 textfield each:


mc1 textfield = called varText1


action in mc1:

vartext1=_root.var1

-----------------------

mc2 textfield = called varText2


action in mc2

varText2=_root.var2

----------------------

mc3 textfield = called varText3


action in mc3

varText3=_root.var3


---------------------

To sort of automate this, if all MC's are in the main timeline at the same time, you could have an action like this (in the main

timline)


for (i=1; i<=3; i++){

_root["mc"+i]["varText"+i]=_root["var"+i]

}


hth,

Muzak


----- Original Message -----

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Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:04 PM

Subject: FLASH: Help! Get variables from other movie clips?



> I posted this last week, without a response, so I apologize for the

> re-post:

>

> How do I get a variable from another movie clip?

>

> For example, I have loaded some variables from a text file into Movie Clip

> "A".  There is a dynamic field there displaying them.  Works fine, but how

> do I display some of those variables in dynamic fields in movie clips "B"

> and "C"?

>

> Thanks!

>

> Jason Merrill




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