Help on global variables

[oOEricOo]

Make things very simple, I need to pass variables between different movie clips (.swf's) on my main movie. It seems as tho my variables are only local, not global, i just need to know how to initialize global variables, and how to use the global variables in my other swf's.

thanks alot, eric

[Iammontoya]

precede your variables with _global.

[oOEricOo]

Ok so far example, if i had a variable char called "page1", i would declare it global like.... page1_global ?

[I am not Jubba]

precede means before.

_global.page1

[oOEricOo]

i have my variable before the _global thing, but it's still not correctly working. The variable in my main movie is not cooresponding with my other .swf movie. I don't think it matters where i declare my variables, i have them declared on the main movie. any suggestions, or if u need more insite on what i exactly want just ask.

[I am not Jubba]

i'm not sure, the concept of global variables escapes me. someone else might know .there is a post in this section dealing with this...look for it...

[Scott]

um... i know how to declare globals... thats easy... im not sure about accessing them... do you access them with _root.varName or with _global.varName again within the code... or just simply put varName... im not sure... anyone know? enlighten me please if you can... thanks...

-scott

[I am not Jubba]

i put _global.varName it seemed to work for me...

[suprabeener]

_global.varName will work but it's not necessary. you can just go varName.

that's what a global variable is. if you had to path it, it wouldn't be global

[I am not Jubba]

Ok, so In my Level0 SWF. the first File that comes up I have _global.varName = function () {

whatever

}


but when I use loadMovie and I bring in another SWF and I try

on(press){
varName()
}

and

on(press){
_global.varName()
}

and

on(press){
_root.varName()
}

and

on(press){
_parent.varName()
}


None of them work....

[eyezberg]

i believe you're mixing vars and events/functions here..?
can a variable be a function? can an apple be a computer? ;)

[I am not Jubba]

right, but when i do

varName = function(){
whatever
}

and then use _root.varName()

it calls the function...so i was wondering why global didn't work...when I loaded SWFs in.

[I am not Jubba]

saying

nVideo = function () {
loadMovie("sample.swf", "wherever")
}

is the same as

function nVideo(){
loadMovie("sample.swf", "wherever")
}


and calling them is the same way. but it doesn't work when I use _global

[suprabeener]

it works fine for me, with levels and targets ... maybe something in your function?

[I am not Jubba]

maybe I'm just stupid. I'm sure thats it. I probly just typed in the wrong variable cuz now its workin...

Jubba = dumb