Re: FLASH: FLASH: Global Variables

[dartfrogmedia]

At 01:54 PM 7/14/99 +0100, you wrote:

>I don't understand the flow you want to use. You

>have six scenes and you want the movie to progress from scene 1 -> 2 ->

>3 etc. ?

>But you want this flow to be user controlled and not automatic or user

>controlled from a certain point onwards.


Hi Nigel (and Alan),


I didn't reply to this at first because I don't know the scripting answer,

but I believe the desired behavior is this:  The user is in the midst of a

scene and wishes to go to another scene (non-sequential). The user clicks

on the button associated with that other scene. Before being taken there,

the current scene jumps to a closing transition and only then does the

requested scene play. What is needed, then, is for a variable to be

established based on which scene was requested, and for this variable to be

passed to a frame action at the end of the closing transition of the

current scene, so that the frame action will send the playback to the

correct scene. As I said, I don't know the specifics of how to do that, but

look forward to learning :-). I do know how to do this in Flash3 by sending

an independent movie clip to a stopped frame just before a frame that tells

the main timeline to go to the new scene. The last frame of the current

scene would then tell this movie clip to go to the next frame, which would

execute the frame action.


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