Re: FLASH: Troubles with variables and a Quiz

[ryan schroeder]

Very helpful actually, didn't realize you needed to address variables with

path names.


I'm authoring in f4 content in f5, but don't really understand AS in 4 or 5

and have never gotten into JS either so....


Thanks


-ryan


> i must confess i'm getting confused here

> the script looks like a flash 4 script

> but it must be flash 5 (typeof() for instance is not a function in flash

4)

> i'm not at all at home with flash 5 so i hope this applies:

>

> i think your variable is root level

> so if you want to read it from an mc you should put a forward slash and

> colon (flash 4) in front of it ("/:yourVariable") or (flash 5)

> "_root.yourVariable" in dot notation i think.

> in flash 4 you compare strings with "eq", not "==", but i suppose that's

> correct for flash 5 since it conforms to the ecma/ javascript standard.

>

> any help or just confusing?

> Matt



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