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  • 21-03-2005 5:15pm
    #1
    impr0v
    Registered Users Posts: 2,647 ✭✭✭


    The following actionscript works perfectly in the main timeline, but when i put it into the first frame of a movie clip on the main timeline, it won't work at all, even though all the necessary variables are absolutely referenced. There is no reason that I can discern for this problem occuring, has anyone any ideas?
    // initialise count variables

var countVar = 1;
var pad = "default";
var total = parseInt(_root.endCount); //ensure that the endcount is an integer

// start loop to isolate the individual pad numbers for the top level

do {
  pad = String(_root["num" + countVar]); 
  pad = pad.substr(0,1);
  tellTarget(_root.keypadlan["padkey"+ pad]){
	  gotoAndStop("lit")
  }
  countVar++;
} while (countVar < total);

stop();

    If i place a dynamic text field within the movie clip, to trace the variables, and link it to '_root.endCount', it displays the correct value, yet if i link it to 'total' (which converts _root.endCount to an integer) it displays 'NaN' (not a number), indicating that it's not performing that conversion. As stated above, there is no problem with the numbers involved, the script works perfectly on the main timeline, but ideally i need it to work from within a movie clip. There seems to be some convoluted problem with variable referencing, but for no obvious reason.


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