Conditional functions

[jhbiddle]

Hello everyone!

I am wanting to set a variable, and if this variable is a certain value, reveal a movie. I know the variables are being written okay, as I have some dynamic text boxes saying so. What I have so far is:

if (input == z) {
setProperty ("movie_ins", _visible, 1);
} else if (input == x) {
setProperty ("movie_ins", _visible, 0);
}

Also, where to put this code? In a loop in the timeline? In a ' onClipEvent (load) '? In the button?

Simple problem, except I just swapped Flash 4 for Flash 5. hmmmmm. Many thanks for any help at all!

cheers, Heresjonny

[stereokitchen]

Are you making the value of z a number? It may help to make it a number because '==' is checking for a value of TRUE and if the value is a string, I think this can jumble stuff up.

Let me know if this works.

And if that doesn't help, the other thing i could suggest to try, is to put 'movie_ins' into it's own movie clip, and have a frame that has it present, and one frame empty - but this route makes the level of communication a little deeper and that can get confusing also.

Good luck.

[stork1515]

stereokitchen is correct, the boolean value for a letter is false so neither of those if statements would work, unless you have declared z and x as numbers previously.

[jhbiddle]

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jonny

[jhbiddle]

... and as a PS too, for people moving from Flash 4 to 5;

I spent several days trying to work out why my if (input = z) was not working.

In Flash 4, = is the operator, while in 5 it is replaced by == for equality.

If you use = it SETS the variable to 'z' ignoring the 'if', which certainly had me confused.

just a thought,

j