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Rylz
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September 5, 2007
Question

External AS code will not pass through

  • September 5, 2007
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I can't figure out why script that works in Flash does NOT work when placed in an external AS!? As an example:

employment_alpha_btn.onRelease = function() {
gotoAndPlay("eaccess_rollout_to_employment");
}

This will work when placed on a frame in Flash, but it will NOT work when put in an external AS. However, I have other commands in the same external AS that work just fine:

corpcomp_alpha.onRollOver = function() {
gotoAndPlay("corpcomp_grow");
};

Can anyone help? Can you not do onRelase in an external AS? I'm stuck...
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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 5, 2007
you're welcome.

p.s. i can't tell you how many times of debugged an .as file, making changes and failing to save that file, and have then be bewildered by seeing the same problem in the test environment. you must SAVE the .as file for the published swf and the swf in the test environment to reflect those changes.
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RylzAuthor
Participant
September 5, 2007
OK, that's good enough for me. I can take critique on my own errors, so long as Flash wasn't doing something wrong or I was using the wrong commands. I'll triple-check my spelling and move on. Thanks for the help!
kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 5, 2007
the only thing for certain is that it's not a flash issue: you erred.
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RylzAuthor
Participant
September 5, 2007
Gah! Now it works! I can't figure this out. Yes, every time I made a change in the external AS, I would save it and then re-publish the .fla. Every single time. Why would it all of a sudden start working?! It just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, hurray that it's working, but I'm afraid that it'll just stop working one day. Anybody have thoughts as to why it would not work and then work? There shouldn't be a "cache" in Flash, should there? I'm doing all of my SWF tests by doing the preview (CTRL+ENTER), so that should rule out the browser caching something.
kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 5, 2007
put a trace statement on your onRelease handler to see if it's executing. if it is, you have a movieclip reference issue or a frame label issue. otherwise, you may have another onRelease handler that's executing after your include statement.
kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 5, 2007
your include statement probably is located on a frame where employment_alpha_btn does not exist, yet.
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RylzAuthor
Participant
September 5, 2007
From what I can tell, it does exist. I have a layer that expands the entire scene, simply to have "#include 'eaccess_buttons.as'" and make sure it runs throughout the scene. The scene lasts 115 frames and the aforementioned layer only has the one keyframe in frame 1, expanded to the last frame.

Oddly enough, I just put in two more commands for it in the external AS: onRollOver & onRollOut. They work just fine and dandy:

employment_alpha_btn.onRollOver = function() {
employment_alpha_btn._alpha = 100;
}
employment_alpha_btn.onRollOut = function() {
employment_alpha_btn._alpha = 50;
}

Again, within the same AS, here is an onRelease command that works (and does so on 15 other buttons):

chartlink_alpha.onRelease = function() {
var myStyle:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet();
myStyle.load("index.css");
eaccess_body.styleSheet = myStyle;
eaccess_body.multiline = true;
eaccess_body.wordWrap = true;
eaccess_body.html = true;
var story:XML = new XML();
story.ignoreWhite = true;
story.load("chartlink-explain.html");
story.onLoad = function() {
eaccess_body.htmlText = story;
};
}

I'm so lost and confused...
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