parent talking to child fails some of the time?

[paul_james123]

Hi All,

Have others found that sending a value (stored in a variable) from a parent (main timeline) to a child (movie clip) fails some of the time but only when the movie is running as a .swf (it never fails when testing in authoring)?

My main timeline's actionscript has:

XYZ_ChildMC.variableA = false; //parent talks to child movie clip

In the child MC script:

import fl.video.*;

var variableA;

function completeHandler(e: fl.video.VideoEvent): void

{

     if (variableA == false)

          {

             myFLV.seek(0);

             myFLV..play();

          }

}

This seems to fail about 5% of the time when running/rerunning the .swf in a browser.

Anyone have a similar experience?

Thanks

[kglad]

never had that problem.  most likely you have a timing issue.

use the trace function or textfield to determine if completeHandler is executing before variableA is assigned.

[paul_james123]

I'll test that

Thanks Kglad.

[kglad]

you're welcome.