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• lw-d

  Hi all,

  On day 2 of learning ActionScript. Here is what I am trying to do.

  Create a variable to hold details of what button a user has pressed, then, create a function that acts upon this variable out outputs the relevent page. I have no objects on the actual timeline but I have give set the linkage options for each menu from the library. Here is the code I have:

  //creates a variable to store the currently active menu
  storepage = home;

  // creates a function that tell flash which menu to show
  loadnav = function (storepage) {
  if (storepage = "modeling") {
  nav_modeling = this.attachMovie("nav_modeling", "nav_modeling_mc","0",{_x:25, _y:108.8});
  }

  else if (storepage = home) {
  nav_home = this.attachMovie("nav_home", "nav_home_mc","0",{_x:25, _y:108.8});
  }
  }

  it doesn't display the default menu name home, can anyone see an obvious reason why?

  Thanks

  lw-d

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• restlessdesign0

  well...where are you calling the function?

  anyways, if you're going to be doing a lot of logic testing, i would suggest using a SWITCH statement instead of a bunch of IF statements

  for the way you're doing it, you don't even really need to pass any parameters to your function. you could just make a global variable:
  _global.thePage = "home"
  and change the value of that variable whenever a button is clicked, then call a function to load it:

  function loadPage() {
  switch (_global.thePage) {
  case "home" :
  some_mc.loadMovie("home.swf")
  break;
  }
  }

  etc.

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• lw-d0

  Thanks mate, I will look in SWITCH statements, just found it a chapter in a book I am learning from.

  Thanks.

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• lw-d0

  awesome: I know have the home menu movie loaded using:

  switch (loadnav) {
  case home: nav_home = this.attachMovie("nav_home", "nav_home_mc","0",{_x:25, _y:108.8});
  case modeling: nav_modeling = this.attachMovie("nav_modeling", "nav_home_mc","0",{_x:25, _y:108.8});
  case visual: nav_visual = this.attachMovie("nav_visual", "nav_home_mc","0",{_x:25, _y:108.8});
  default: nav_home = this.attachMovie("nav_home", "nav_home_mc","0",{_x:25, _y:108.8});
  }

  I know just need to wire up the buttons.

  Thanks for your help.

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• restlessdesign0

  anytime :)

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