RE: FN-FORUM flash 5 question

date posted 11th September 2002 15:49

put "_root.button=2" to set the button variable at the root level.

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[EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Luke Cooper
Sent: 11 September 2002 15:04
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Subject: FN-FORUM flash 5 question


Could any body help ,this is driving me crazy.

I want to control one MC using buttons in another MC both placed on the
main movie timeline.

The MC I want to control is a series of text blocks which go from 0%
alpha to 100% and back to 0% each one running one after the other on the
MC timeline.
The first part of the MC has a stop where the first block is 100% , from
this point I want the buttons in the other MC to start the MC playing
from this 100% alpha point, ( I can do that) go to the 0% point (I can
do that) and then DEPENDING of which button was pressed then go to the
appropriate place in the timeline where another text block will fade up
from.

I haven't been using actionscript for long but what I have put in the
button is

on (release) {
_root.otherMC.play();

button = 2;
}

I have multiple buttons each setting a different value ( or that's the
intention anyway) so hopefully the targeted MC will go to different
labels .

then in the frame on the text block MC where the text block has faded
to 0% I have put

if (button=2) {
gotoAndPlay ("web");
} else if (button=3) {
gotoAndPlay ("domain");
}

the desired effect being the text block fades out then the mc begins
playing at the appropriate key frame where a different text block will
fade in from 0% to 100%.

Amongst other problems I don't think I'm getting the text block MC to
recognise variables created on other timelines.

Please Help if you can I will gladly email a FLA if somebody knows how
to sort this.

I realise I could create this effect by loading and unloading SWFs, but
having got this far I would like to find out how I finish it off.

Cheers

Luke


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