FLASH: variable - values mixing up ???

[lia]

hi there!


i`m quite new on this list so i don`t know if this problem has already been

discussed (couldn`t find anything relating this stuff in the archieves...)



problem:::


i have a menu with horizontal lines under each menuitem which open on click

and show the content (some other menu-items)


if the user then pressed ANY other button, i wanted to define a variable

called "location" with the names of the buttones ("details", "hotNews" and

so on).... -

so that first the variable is defined, and then - in each case - the header

goes to the closing part of this opened menu and then - depending on the

value of the variable "location" the header should go to the next

opening-sequence....



what happens:::


if i ask in the last frame of the closing-sequence for just ONE variable

then everything works fine:::



if (location="details")

  Go to and Play ("open_01_02_details)

end if

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


if i ask for 2 or more variables then they are mixed up, sometimes it

works, sometimes it works wrong, sometimes it doesn`t work and the header

is at the end of the movie... ???? in author mode and as a swf.


i tried to have the if-end if statement separated or nested with the else

command:


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

this:::


if (location="details")

  Go to and Play ("open_01_02_details)

end if


if (location="hotNews")

  Go to and Play ("open_01_03_hotNews)

end if


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

and this:::


if (location="details")

  Go to and Play ("open_01_02_details)

   Else

     if (location="hotNews")

       Go to and Play ("open_01_03_hotNews)

     end if

end if

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



are there some TRICKS ???

do i name the variable in a wrong way (alway used abc: for the variable AND

the value)



sorry for the long explanations, but i`m rather frustrated after having a

quite long search on the web for any help.....





thx in advance




lia








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