FLASH: s.o.s.

[Judd Morrissey]

Flashers,


I am having a major problem. Listen closely:


I am creating an electronic book in Flash. It works like this: the

user/reader sees a page of text with one highlighted word. Upon

rollover, the page transforms and a new word is highlighted. The text

proceeds to unfold in this way. The rollover simply takes the reader to

the next frame in the "movie."


This works fine. However, I have a secondary navigational device that

doesn't. It works in the player and as a standalone but not on-line. The

device works like this. I have a button labelled "current." Upon

rollover this sets a text field "curr" to the value of the current frame:


on rollover

set variable "x"=GetProperty("_level0",_currentframe)

set variable "curr"=x (actually x+6 because there is a previous scene

with five frames)


In addition, the user can enter a frame number into a field called

"turn." When the user enters a number and either hits 'return' or clicks

on a button with the words "turn to," he or she is taken to that frame #:


on press

set variable "y"=Eval("turn")

go to and stop y


All of these fields and buttons are in the main timeline. However, they

are placed on top of a movie clip and would seem to be a part of it. I

have a button that toggles the visibility of this movieclip that appears

as a simple navigation box overlaying a text-filled portion of the main

timeline and seems to contain the text fields mentioned above. So, when

this clip is invisible, the fields are set to " " (empty) so they don't

overlay text in the main timeline. Also the editable field has no

border, however the movie clip underneath contains the outlines of a

rectangle in order to simulate a border, so that the editable field is

more conspicuous.


Here are the online problems:

1)the movie clip is always visible--the toggle button doesn't work

regardless of whether I set the visibility of the movie clip to 0 or the

alpha to 0.

2)nothing appears in the "curr" field when it is supposed to display the

# of the current frame.

3)no text can be entered into the editable field "turn," and in fact the

button labelled "turn to" is not visible.


In other words, nothing works! This piece has no problem off of the internet.


I've tested every possibility the missing numbers are due to a font

problem and I can't see how it could be. I'm using times and have tried

both outlines and no outlines. I've even tried the Flash _sans font with

no results.


I have tried to toggle both the visibility and the alpha because I

thought the Flash player on-line might have a problem with the

visibility property of movie clips.


I have left a lot of the code out of this e-mail because I've already

taken enough of your time. But I need to know if anyone has any ideas as

to what is going wrong.


I am in a crunch and am desperate for advice right away.


Thanks in advance,

judd


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