Re: FLASH: (Expanded) working with variables

[John Dowdell]

At 8:39 AM 6/30/99, Jason Murray wrote:

>-- Button one --

>On (Release)

>      Set Variable: button = "wall"

>

>

>-- Button two --

>On (Release)

>      Set Variable: button = "frieghts"




I may be missing something here, but it looks like these are two different

variables, in two different movie clips, that just happen to have the same

name. Is this what you've actually got there?


If so, there was a parallel thread yesterday about variables and their

scope. A variable isn't globally available throughout the program... its

life is constrained to the timeline it's in. You can reach across from one

timeline to another, to have information available throughout all

timelines, by specifying the path as you would when targeting messages.


If this is the issue, then Chapter 10 of the Flash 4 manual can pay off...

I'm still regularly re-reading it myself, looking for new ways to

understand these abilities.


Is this along the lines of what you're working with there...?


jd





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