Deprecated ne - Inequality Operator

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This is a super simple question I'm guessing, but my tiny and out-of-practice actionscripting brain just can't make the translation.

I'm trying to make a simple user/pass login form respond good/bad via status text depending on the password entered.

I'm trying to mark up the following code to make it work:

on (release) {
	if (password eq "Password123") {
		status = "You're VIP, baby!";
	} else if (password ne "Password123") {
		status = "Access is Denied.";
	}
}

I'm recently moved to CS3 but still using AS 2 for this particular file.

The "ne" method is deprecated now (and also, in my movie, is only working when pass is wrong, not when it is right) - and I would like to accomplish the same thing using the new lingo.

Could anyone translate it using the "!= inequality operator" method? Or maybe recommend a tutorial or download?

Many, many thanks for any help...

[a_modified_dog]

try a simple if/else -

if (password == "Password123") {
status = "You're VIP, baby!";
} else {
status = "Access is Denied.";
}

[cresquin]

!= means "is not equal to". it is used interchangeably with ne.
== means "is equal to". it is used interchangeably with eq.

    if (password == "Password123") {
        status = "You're VIP, baby!";
    } else if (password != "Password123") {
        status = "Access is Denied.";
    } 

[drumatic]

Gents - many thanks to both of you for your responses.

However - I cannot get this little darn thing to work - it gives the "bad" or "else" response no matter what - even if the password is correct.

Attaching the files (in FL8, some reason the CS3 version wouldn't upload) - if you have time, could you take a glance? What am I doing wrong here - it seems like it should be so simple.

[a_modified_dog]

you are accessing a TextInput Component,
so you need to add .text to your code

on (press, release) {
	if (password.text == "Password123") {
		status = "You're VIP, baby!";
	} else if (password.text != "Password123") {
		status = "Access is Denied.";
	}
}

[drumatic]

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Many thanks.

[drumatic]

Thank you SO MUCH for your help thus far - could I trouble you for one more tweak?

Is there a simple way I could put a timer on the status messages?

So "Access is Denied." would render for say 10 seconds and then vanish.

Since the whole site uses internal nav, a user could have that stuck on the screen for their entire web experience otherwise...

[cresquin]

move the code to the timeline:

submitButtonName.onRelease = function {
    if (password.text == "Password123") {
        status = "You're VIP, baby!";
    } else if (password.text != "Password123") {
        status = "Access is Denied.";
        statusTimer = setInterval(clearStatus, 10000);
    }
}

function clearStatus(){
    status = "";
    clearInterval(statusTimer);
} 

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Thank you so much for the expert response(s) - and so quick!

I'm going to take a stab at implementing this in an hour or two (caught up with something else presently) - and will let you know if all went well once I've done so.

Thanks again.

[drumatic]

Ah - just noticed:

Maybe this is irrelevant, as it is actionscript and embedded in Flash - we are running Windows server actually, and ASP.NET (not that anything on the site is dynamic yet so we're not using it) - but does that mean that this PHP code will not work for our app, or am I confused?

[cresquin]

ignore the "PHP Code" around that selection. it's just there because I used the PHP tags in my message instead of the generic CODE tags as a way to have the code highlighted and formatted. The code there is all actionscript.

[drumatic]

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=746290