problem with if statment

[beattie282]

i have a slideshow what basicaly goes thru 5 pictures
but the if statment is not working correctly an i cannot find out why could you please help?

my code

stop();


next_btn.onRelease = function()  {
    if (_root._currentframe == 997){
        gotoAndStop(992);
    }
    else {
        nextFrame();
    }
}

back_btn.onRelease = function() {
    if (_root._currentframe == 992){
        gotoAndStop(997);
    }
    else {
        prevFrame();
    }
}

the back_btn works correctly and goes to the last fra,e where the last picture in the slidshow is but the next button keeps on taking me to frame 1
thankyou in advanced

P.S i can upload the file if you wish to see it

Beattie282

[glosrfc]

At a quick glance, there's no reason why that code alone wouldn't cycle through frames 992-997 and then return to frame 992. So it's possible that there's some additional code on frames 1-991 that is interfering with the next_btn, or you're using scenes which has messed up the frame numbering.

[beattie282]

Originally Posted by glosrfc

At a quick glance, there's no reason why that code alone wouldn't cycle through frames 992-997 and then return to frame 992. So it's possible that there's some additional code on frames 1-991 that is interfering with the next_btn, or you're using scenes which has messed up the frame numbering.

yea i am using scenes but i got the frame numbers from this function to display into the dynamic text feild

onEnterFrame=function(){ 
    _root.displayNumber=_root._currentframe;
}

this is where i found my frame numbers from ive also tryed all the close numbers like 99"6/8/9" but nothing happens

p.s:

i would not of used scenes if i knew how much hassle they are i only found out today that i had to lable frames to jump around scenes because of the way flash compliles the whole file as one so therfore only one timeline.
thankyou for you help by the way mate

[glosrfc]

One of the drawbacks to using scenes is that it messes up the numbering of your frames. Unfortunately, there's no corresponding _currentlabel in AS2

What you can try doing though is to give frames 992 and 997 a label, e.g. "start" and "end"
Then, on each of those frames place a variable:
on frame 992 put thisLabel = "start";
on frame 997 put thisLabel = "end";

Then change your code to this:

next_btn.onRelease = function()  {
    if (thisLabel == "end"){
        gotoAndStop("start");
    }
    else {
        nextFrame();
    }
}

back_btn.onRelease = function() {
    if (thisLabel == "start"){
        gotoAndStop("end");
    }
    else {
        prevFrame();
    }
}

[beattie282]

ermmm how do i add variables to frames? ive got literaly no idea i only started flash like 2 weeks ago

[glosrfc]

You should already have a keyframe on frame 992. In the Actions panel, put:
var thisLabel = "start";
You should see the a symbol appear in this frame on the Timeline which shows that you have actionscript located there.
Do the same thing for frame 997

[beattie282]

YAY Thank you mate!! much appreciated, it wasent working at first then i had a tought about the buttons i realized i had copied other buttons so thats what was making it mess up

and thanks agen mate ur a life saver

[glosrfc]

No problem. One thing's for sure...you probably won't be using scenes again