Question about variables.

[Rikimaru-Azlar]

If you put conditions for a variable (say when player is hit by an enemy) within a function and set conditions for true and false,

can you then refer to that condition in other symbols? Like when enemy attack hit tests character set player hit to true - thus making the player respond to the hit event from within another movie clip. Is that possible?

[Woadraiders]

Yes, and implemented just as you said it.

[Rikimaru-Azlar]

At 6/29/09 09:24 PM, Woadraiders wrote: Yes, and implemented just as you said it.

Thanks dude, will get my head round this

[WhoknowsmeaUdiO]

To acces a variable that is inside another MC, you can put "_root." + the instance name of the MC, followed by the variable name. If you want to access the variable "variable1" from the MC "enemy", just use something like this:

if(_root.enemy.variable1 != 0){
_root.enemy.variable1 = 0;
}

If the variable is in a movieclip that's inside another MC, stack it. The most upper one first. MC "lawl" is inside MC "hello". On MC "lawl", there's the variable "haha".
So:

_root.hello.lawl.haha = 1002;

If you adress a distant variable often in your script, you can assign it to another variable:

onEnterFrame = function () {
	var movieclip = _root.lawl.variable1;
	trace(movieclip);
// I've already defined variable1.
};

But keep in mind that it's a lot better to keep your code together. Either on one MC or on the main timeline. In AS3, you can't even code on MC's.

[asgrunt]

Yes, you can use _root, but you shouldn't - as soon as your movie is loaded via mc.loadMovie() nothing will work any longer. Use relative adressing instead, i.e.:

this._parent.something

And, yes, don't use object scripts anymore, they are ways to inflexible and wil get lost in complex projects