Re: FLASH: variable/go to problems

[Laura Mollett]

> Is there any reason that the following would cause a movie to go to

> "framelabel1" regardless of the value that "variable" contains?

>

> i.e. variable = ""  then movie goes to framelabel1   or if variable

> ="valuestuff" the movie also goes to framelabel1.

>

>

> On (Release)

>       If (variable= "")

>             Go to and Play ("framelabel1")

>       End If

> End On


What happens to me is that I think I've set a variable, but the movie isn't

understanding where the variable is. For example, on the main timeline, I've

set a variable "x", and then in a mc, I say If (variable = "") (the quotes

for whatever mc it's addressing at the moment) and I expect it to return

something like If (x = "themovieclipi'min") then goto frame 1 - but since

flash can't find the value for x as it's on the main timeline, then it sets

x equal to just whatever... set x = whatevermcyourin and no matter what you

do, it's *always* equal.


Try first making sure your target is all perfect. If (/:variable = "") for

the maintimeline or If (/mc/:variable = "") if it's in a mc, and if that

doesn't help, try adding evaluates or eq instead of equal or both things

(make sure what kind of value you need it to return, a mc name is a string).

So you might need: If (eval(/:variable) = "") or If (eval(/:variable) eq "")

- either case, the reason is probably that flash thinks those things are

equal even when they shouldn't be. And if that doesn't help either, try

setting a variable equal to "/:mc" and then say: If (thevariableyoujustadded

= "") So you first sett it equal to a name so it can go find it, and then

find the value of it. If that makes any sense, I hope it helps :)


Laura


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