Re: FN-FORUM flash 5 question

date posted 11th September 2002 16:26

Many thanks to Peter, Chris and Anthony between you all of your tips I got
it to work.

I owe you all cyberlagers.

Luke

"Anthony Johnston . Antix" wrote:

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