FLASH: string literal or expression

[M. Joos]

Hi to all, (very nice list btw - except for Louis)

I have a problem which drives me grazy and I suspect that it has

something to do with using either string literal or expression in  set

property.

Usually I set property of an mc by the following:

set property ("/mc",x scale,199)


But what if I want to use a string function like substring ?

I wanted to do some textfx ... doesn4t work.

Below is the action script of the four key frames.


In frame one I have 27 mc instances called a,b,c representing  symbols

of letters.


Frame one:

Set Variable: "text" = "if this would work"

Set Variable: "abc" = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Set Variable: "count" = 1

Set Variable: "xpos" = xpos+20


Frame 2: (I want the letters to dissapear  ... this part works)

Loop While (count <27)

      Set Property (substring(abc,count,1), Visibility) = 0

      Set Variable: "count" = count+1

End Loop

Set Variable: "count" = 1


Frame 3: (here it doesn't work)

If (count <=Length (text))

      Set Property (substring(text,count,1), Visibility) = 1

      Set Property (substring(text,count,1), X Position) = "xpos"

      Set Variable: "xpos" = xpos+20

      Set Variable: "count" = count+1

End If


Frame 4:

Go to and Play (3)


I am very grateful for any hint what's wrong here


Markus


* Markus Joos (Dipl. Psych.)

* Dresden University of Technology

*

joosypsy1 [dot] psych [dot] tu-dresden [dot] de

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