FLASH: Variables, navigation & LoadMovie

[Richard]

Hi there


A simple question:


I'm using variables to establish a navigation system for a Flash based site.


There are four "galleries" each of which are seperate swfs and are loaded

into level 2.


>From the main navigation frame, a user clicks, say the Gallery 1 button

which does the following:



on (release) {

   gotoAndPlay ("gallery trans", "transition");

   gallery = "1";

}


A transition scene is thus played and the variable gallery is set to "1". I

need the variable so that I can load the correct movie after the tranistion

scene depending on the button clicked.


Then on the last frame of the transition scene, the following action plays:



if (gallery="1") {

   loadMovieNum ("G1A.swf", 2);

} else if (gallery="2") {

   loadMovieNum ("G2A.swf", 2);

} else if (gallery="3") {

   loadMovieNum ("G3A.swf", 2);

} else if (gallery="4") {

   loadMovieNum ("G4A.swf", 2);

}


Trouble is, I can't get the other movies to load - only G1A.swf loads and it

does so regardless of the button pressed. I infer from this that there is a

problem either with the setting and reading of the variables OR with the

if...else if statements in the above frame action.


I've run out of debugging ideas. This is my first attempt at ActionScript

and I'm certain I'm doing something  pretty obviously wrong.


I hope someone can help me!!


Cheers


Richard


PS what is the difference between loadMovieNum and loadMovie?  In the

ActionScript reference manual, I can find no mention of the former yet that

is what is used when I click loadMovie in the scrtipting dialog box.




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