Reset button on form not working

[rxyl81]

Hi,
I am working on a flash site that was done by someone else. I have never used actionscript before so I am sooo new at this. There is a reset button on the form so when people accidentally type in something, they can just click on the "reset" button and it clears all fields. The problem is that it's not clearing.

This is what I have in the code for the button:
on (release) {

fullName = "";

address = "";

message = "";

}


The three (fullName, address and message) are the names of my variable when you select each input field. Where am I going wrong with this? Nothing happens when I click it.

Thanks!

[samac1068]

You still haven't cleared the textfields. If you are using three variables (fullName, address, and message) you still have three textfields with their own instance name (txtfullName, txtaddress, so on). You need to get the instance name of the field.

Select the textfield, and check the instance name field in the properties window. When you have that information you need to add the following code (remember to replace my example field name with the actual field name).

on (release)
{
    fullName ="";
    address = "";
    message = "";
    txtfullName.text = "";
    txtaddress.text = "";
    txtmessage.text = "";
}

You could condense it, but it works either way.

[rxyl81]

Does that work only when you put it on the web? When I publish preview it in flash it doesn't seem to work. I copied it exactly as you put it and placed it in the actions when I clicked on the reset button. Also, I don't know if this affects it or not but the text fields are an instance of them. Do the actual text fields have to be on that "page" for the code to work? Thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it.