AS 3.0 simple boolean not returning correct value. Why?

[raine976]

I have started my movie with the var "nowPlaying" to be true because "mySuper_mc" will be playing at start.
I have then created a Timer function that will tell the "mySuper_mc" to stop playing after given amount of time and to also set "nowPlaying" variable to false, however the setting the variable to false doesn't seem to work.
I can mouse over in the begging of the movie before the timer has stopped it and will still get the trace statement that "The Movie Is Stopped"

stop();

var stopTime:Timer = new Timer(500);

var nowPlaying:Boolean = true;

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mousedOver);
function mousedOver(event:MouseEvent):void
{
    if (nowPlaying == false);
    {
        trace("The Movie Is Stopped");
    }
}


stopTime.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,  starTimer);
function starTimer(event:TimerEvent):void
{
    mySuper_mc.stop();
    nowPlaying = false;
    
}



stopTime.start(); 

[dudeqwerty]

It's just a simple typeo, see here:

stop(); 

var stopTime:Timer = new Timer(500); 

var nowPlaying:Boolean = true; 

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mousedOver); 
function mousedOver(event:MouseEvent):void 
{ 
    if (nowPlaying == false); // <----------- REMOVE THIS
    { 
        trace("The Movie Is Stopped"); 
    } 
} 


stopTime.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,  starTimer); 
function starTimer(event:TimerEvent):void 
{ 
    mySuper_mc.stop(); 
    nowPlaying = false; 
     
} 



stopTime.start();

just remove the semicolon and it will work.

[raine976]

ohh i see! my bad. Thank you much!
pretty new to AS . Thanks for letting me know my mistake

[gparis]

Moved to the appropriate forum

gparis