Camera Simulation | Listbox troubles

[ghost_flash]

Hi everyone:

I'm creating a camera simulator, very basic to illustrate the dependency between f-stop (Amount of light allowed in) and the shutter speed (The amount of time the shutter allows light to enter).

My problem is, I have two listboxes and am not finding a way to make the selections communicate with each other.

I will set up all the combinations of photos for each allowed setting but how do I commuicate this and load the proper swf file to the corresponding selections?

Here is a mockup of my simulator.

Camera Simulation | f-stop / shutter speed

Thanks in advance!

[Treylok]

Those are combo boxes right? Well one way is to give both of your combo boxes unique instance names. then give each label a different data value in the combo box. Through action script you can find which value are selected in both of the combo boxes. For example:

2 combo boxes named combo1 and combo2

fstop = combo1.getValue()
speed = combo2.getValue()

if(fstop == 1){
if(speed ==1){
load whatever movie you want.
}
if(speed == 2){
load a different movie
}
.
.
.
.
}
if(stop ==2 ){
if( speed ==1){
load whatever.
}
}
etc.

You are going to have a lot of if statements for each option, but it should get the job done.

good luck

[Larchmedia 2]

Another way to do this is to name the SWFs in such a way that you can create the file name by concatenating the values from the list boxes. For example name a SWF 28_100.swf and build the name using openPicture = eval(combo1.getValue() + "_" + combo2.getValue()+".swf"); etc. Then use loadMovie(openPicture) to open the SWF. Of course the variable names can be what you want. I use a similar technique quite often to dynamically load SWFs into a host movie. I hope this helps. I plan on adding a similar device to my site in the not too distant future and will use this technique.

Originally posted by Treylok
Those are combo boxes right? Well one way is to give both of your combo boxes unique instance names. then give each label a different data value in the combo box. Through action script you can find which value are selected in both of the combo boxes. For example:

2 combo boxes named combo1 and combo2

fstop = combo1.getValue()
speed = combo2.getValue()

if(fstop == 1){
if(speed ==1){
load whatever movie you want.
}
if(speed == 2){
load a different movie
}
.
.
.
.
}
if(stop ==2 ){
if( speed ==1){
load whatever.
}
}
etc.

You are going to have a lot of if statements for each option, but it should get the job done.

good luck

[ghost_flash]

Originally posted by Treylok
Those are combo boxes right? Well one way is to give both of your combo boxes unique instance names. then give each label a different data value in the combo box. Through action script you can find which value are selected in both of the combo boxes. For example:

2 combo boxes named combo1 and combo2

fstop = combo1.getValue()
speed = combo2.getValue()

if(fstop == 1){
if(speed ==1){
load whatever movie you want.
}
if(speed == 2){
load a different movie
}
.
.
.
.
}
if(stop ==2 ){
if( speed ==1){
load whatever.
}
}
etc.

You are going to have a lot of if statements for each option, but it should get the job done.

good luck

Thank you very much!
I tried looking up how to do just this on Macromedia's site... ack.

Regards,
Mark