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Anonymous
May 31, 2011
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Keeping mc visibility consistant

  • May 31, 2011
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Hi,

I am working on part of an Escape Game using AS2 - Flash8.  I am doing navigation where clicking the mc sets it's visibility to "false" and a previously unseen button's visibility to "true".  You click the button and are sent to another room on the next frame.  But when you return to the first room the mc is visible again and the button invisible.  The room is basically reset.  I do not know how to keep the mc in a state of _visible=false;  Thanks for any help.

Kim

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Correct answer Ned Murphy

If  the button cannot be kept visible in the other frames, then using variables to set the visibility will work as an alternative.  They don't need to be _global, but they will need to be declared on a layer that extends the full length of the timeline so that the _visible status will remain in effect.  Then only change that value when conditions call for it.

So create a layer for these variables that extends the length of the timeline and declare them in frame 1 and then conditionally assign their initial values...

var h1Visible;

var hc1Visible;

if(h1Visible == undefined) h1Visible = false;

if(hc1Visible == undefined) hc1Visible = true;

What that does is make it so that the first time thru that frame the values are set to true/false as shown, but when that frame is returned to, they are no longer undefined, so they will retail whatever value they had.

So then what you do is assign them to the objects in the frames wherever else in the timeline where you need to...

stop();

hole1_mc._visible=h1Visible;

holeCover1_mc._visible=hc1Visible;

holeCover1_mc.onRelease=function(){
    h1Visible = true;

    hole1_mc._visible=true;

    hc1Visible = false;
    holeCover1_mc._visible=hc1Visible;
}

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Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
May 31, 2011

Keep the button and the mc in both frames and don't have any code that resets them.

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Anonymous
May 31, 2011

I am not sure how that helps because navigation in all the rooms are completely different.  I have read about setting up a _global var.  Would that help?  If so i do not know the correct way to set it up.  Here is the simple script on the AS frame:

stop();

hole1_mc._visible=false;

holeCover1_mc.onRelease=function(){
  hole1_mc._visible=true;
holeCover1_mc._visible=false;
}

But leaving the room and coming back resets it as you know.  Can you explain your idea a little more clearly?  Thank you.

Ned Murphy
Ned MurphyCorrect answer
Legend
May 31, 2011

If  the button cannot be kept visible in the other frames, then using variables to set the visibility will work as an alternative.  They don't need to be _global, but they will need to be declared on a layer that extends the full length of the timeline so that the _visible status will remain in effect.  Then only change that value when conditions call for it.

So create a layer for these variables that extends the length of the timeline and declare them in frame 1 and then conditionally assign their initial values...

var h1Visible;

var hc1Visible;

if(h1Visible == undefined) h1Visible = false;

if(hc1Visible == undefined) hc1Visible = true;

What that does is make it so that the first time thru that frame the values are set to true/false as shown, but when that frame is returned to, they are no longer undefined, so they will retail whatever value they had.

So then what you do is assign them to the objects in the frames wherever else in the timeline where you need to...

stop();

hole1_mc._visible=h1Visible;

holeCover1_mc._visible=hc1Visible;

holeCover1_mc.onRelease=function(){
    h1Visible = true;

    hole1_mc._visible=true;

    hc1Visible = false;
    holeCover1_mc._visible=hc1Visible;
}

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