Restarting and variable scope

Question

Hello,

I am using canvas and am setting some variables in the first frame of an animation. I want to be able to replay the animation and restart all of the children, but it seems that the vars I am setting are getting reset back to their original state when I rewind. Is there a clean way to not have the variables I am initializing change on restart?

function restart() {

//console.log(doReplay);

if (stage && stage.children) {

var i, l = stage.children.length;

for (i = 0; i < l; i++) {

var child = stage.children;

if ("gotoAndPlay" in child)

stage.gotoAndPlay(0);

}

Colin Holgate · Accepted Answer

The variable ought to have automatically become a window variable, but it does seem to fail. Try setting it as a window variable:

if (!window.iHaveBeenInitialized) {

window.iHaveBeenInitialized = true;

alert("hi");

}

ClayUUID · Answer

Then start your animation on the second frame instead of the first. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.

If you simply must return to the same frame as your initialization code, when wrap it in a conditional like this:

if (!iHaveBeenInitialized) {

iHaveBeenInitialized = true;

initialization code...

}

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