Variable scope

[teamdork]

If I have a 10 frame movie and in frame four I say:
name = “Bob” Is it correct to say that when that movie is loaded for the first time frames 1-3 will not have “Bob” but anytime after frame 4 has played frames 1-3 and all other frames will have the value of “Bob”? Or dose it make more sense to think of the variable as having the value and existing outside of the movie?

Maybe a better way to ask is:
What is the scope of variables in Flash?
If you jump back to frame one, is it still Bob?
What If I didn't want frames 1-3 to be Bob, could I kill
Bob in the last frame? How?

Thanks

[Nadav Drori]

a Variable is a Variable only after you have announce on him!!!!!
After your announce set variavle :var_name = var_value)
you can do what ever you want with it.
Now, if you have announce on a Variable in frame 3 , you will not be able to use it in frames 1 or 2!!!
But, after u have announce on it , you can call it as many times you want, from any place you want (even from out of of flash!!!)
At last, if u want to "kill" a Variable, simply give him a new value, or give him a null value.

Hope it helps
ND

[teamdork]

At last, if u want to "kill" a Variable, simply give him a new value, or give him a null value.

Thanks for the feedback!

That’s interesting – if variables exist independently from the movies they were declared in , then I should be able to reference them from another movie.I would like to change the value of a variable started in firstMovie.swf from
secondMovie.swf but I don’t know the syntax.

How would I reference it and change it to null?

Thanks again for the help