Button that can change a variable?

[Balthazar1234]

Hello

I'm currently doing my year 13 ICT coursework and was trying to find an easier solution for my button/ navigation system.

My product has several scenes; a home page, 4 subsection pages and a quiz page.

currently when I press a button (to go from the home to a subsection for example) it jumps to the page like needed however I need to add in transitions, I could add in new scenes that would contain the separate transition but personally I think that would take too long creating a scene for every transition needed for the product so I was wondering, is it possible to combine a variable with a button?

My idea was that on the home page there are 4 main variables, 1 for each button.

Then when a button is pressed it will continue to play the scene while changing the variable by +1          (so in this case, button A will change var A to +1 and continue to play)

Then when the transition has ended there would be some script of "if statements" saying:        if variable A = 1 then continue to subsection A

also I would then need to subsection page to reset the variables back to 0, ready to use again

I hope this question make sense, if it does not please let me know

thanks

[kglad]

sure.

you can have 'outro' scene that would display the fade-out or some other transiition out from your main scene and use the variable set by your button to determine which scene to display after the outro:

eg:

var nextscene_var:String;

scene1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,scene1F);

function scene1F(e:MouseEvent):void{

nextscene='scene1';

gotoAndPlay(1,'outro');

}

scene2_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,scene2F);

function scene2F(e:MouseEvent):void{

nextscene='scene2';

gotoAndPlay(1,'outro');

}

//etc

// on the last frame of your outro scene:

gotoAndPlay(1,nextscene);

[Balthazar1234]

Hello

Sorry for such the late reply but I've been very busy with other subjects work.

I have tried to use this script and it has worked wonderfully

many thanks

Tom

[kglad]

you're welcome.

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