Am I doing this right?

[SwirlyKing]

I've got this button calling up a function and I'm passing another function as a variable. This is the button code:

_root.rightButtonMC.goButton.onRelease = function() {
        _root.loadSection(_root.bounceLeft());
        //_root.bounceLeft();
    }; 

Here's the other code I'm calling up with it. Even if I take out the "bump" variable, it plays "_root.bounceLeft()" no matter what.

loadSection = function(bump){
    _root.frontMC.play();
    _root.frontMC.onEnterFrame = function(){
        if(_root.frontMC._currentframe == 4){
            _root.frontMC.stop();
            bump;
            _root.frontMC.onEnterFrame = null;
        }
    }
} 

[benhull]

Maybe i'm being dense but your code doesn't seem to make sense.

When you have :

code:

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 _root.rightButtonMC.goButton.onRelease = function() {

        _root.loadSection(_root.bounceLeft());

        //_root.bounceLeft();

    };

---

It WILL run the _root.bounceLeft() function. It's expecting to pass to _root.loadSection() whatever _root.bounceLeft() returns.

What you need instead I think is this:

code:

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 _root.rightButtonMC.goButton.onRelease = function() {

        _root.loadSection("_root.bounceLeft");

        //_root.bounceLeft();

    };

---

then you need:

code:

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 loadSection = function(bump){

    _root.frontMC.play();

    _root.frontMC.onEnterFrame = function(){

        if(_root.frontMC._currentframe == 4){

            _root.frontMC.stop();

            eval(bump);

            _root.frontMC.onEnterFrame = null;

        }

    }

} 

---

Give that a go!

[SwirlyKing]

That caused the bounceLeft to not run, but it did return a trace of "bounceLeft()" for "bump". It seems the eval(bump) didn't make it run. Thanks for the help. I'm in a teeny bit over my head and I'm kindo of figuring this out as I go. I'm not really a programmer.

[benhull]

Ok, I've sussed it...

code:

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 _root.rightButtonMC.goButton.onRelease = function() {



        _root.loadSection("_root.bounceLeft");



        //_root.bounceLeft();



    }; 







 loadSection = function(bump){



    _root.frontMC.play();



    _root.frontMC.onEnterFrame = function(){



        if(_root.frontMC._currentframe == 4){



            _root.frontMC.stop();



            eval(bump)();



            _root.frontMC.onEnterFrame = null;



        }



    }



}  

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[PhobiK]

Sorry to interrupt but why did you write eval(bump) (); ? with two parentheses?

Edit: oh yeah now I get it lol, cus it's a function it needs the parentheses and only the name is stated in "bump"

[SwirlyKing]

You're a genius! thank you very much.