scripting cramp!

[cbcostanza]

Hi! I'm kind of a newbie and I am doing a website for a custom parade float company. So in my site when a user clicks on the initial "start parade" button it brings a parade float across the screen and it stops in the middle where I will load a movie of the home information. This will happen for every navigation button that the user clicks on(a different float for every button). I am wanting to do some code so that when I click on another navigation button the current float on the screen will pull away and the proper float will come in behind it like a parade. I am having trouble figuring out code on how to do this. If anyone could help I would be so appreciative!

chris

[MyFriendIsATaco]

you need to set up a _root.goTo variable. when the navigation button is clicked, the animation for the float going away is played and _root.goTo is set to whatever the next page is, ie: _root.goTo = 'page2'; , after if it is done, there is a switch statement for the different pages/floats and it calls the corresponding page. i hope you understand what im talking about

[Chris_Seahorn]

I do

Love the title of this post...had to mention it.

[cbcostanza]

Thanks for the feedback. I think I follow you with the goto stuff, but I am a little confused on the switch statement. Could you please expound on that. Thanks

[MyFriendIsATaco]

switch is just a shorter version of if..elseif statements. for example:

switch(_root.goTo){
     case 'news':
          _root.newsfloat.play();
     break;
     case 'page2':
          _root.page2float.play();
     break;
}

that is the same as doing:

if(_root.goTo == 'news'){
     _root.newsfloat.play();
}else if (_root.goTo == 'page2'){
     _root.page2float.play();
}

[flash jordon]

Originally Posted by MyFriendIsATaco

switch is just a shorter version of if..elseif statements. for example:

Well, almost but there are some major difference. For instance:

1) switch() can only check equality. It can NOT check > or < .
2) You can check mulitple cases at a time by not including a break imediately after the case. eg.

code:

---

for (i:Number = 0; i<40; i++) {

   j = Math.floor(i/4);

   switch(j) {

      case 1:

      case 3:

      case 5:

         X += 50;

      break;

      default: 

         X += 10;

    }

}

---

Or something like that.

P.S. You guys need to get a new code parser

[cbcostanza]

I still can't get this to work so if here is my file that I am working on could somebody please look at it and help me with the code. Thanks for your patience with this newbie.

Here is the file floats

[MyFriendIsATaco]

yeah, i didnt really wan to get into depth with switch(), i just showed him enough for his situation, i like to let people learn something on their own.