Having instructions happen in on prepareMovie that are passed on from current movie

[Sid]

If I had in "Movie1"

on mouseUp
go to movie "Movie2"
do stuff
end

Then I would be taken to Movie2 and the 'do stuff' would happens when the
move starts.

What if I wanted the 'do stuff' to happen in 'on prepareMovie' instead?

I hope that makes sense.

Thank you

Sid

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 02 Dec 2003, "Sid" <lent_epiphany@hotmailKILLCAPITALS.com> wrote:

> What if I wanted the 'do stuff' to happen in 'on prepareMovie' instead?
>
> I hope that makes sense.

It actually makes more sense to me. Just put that stuff in the prepareMovie
event in a movie script in "Movie2"

But judging by your subject line, it seems you may want to specify which
stuff gets done, or do stuff only under certain conditions. In that case,
you might want to set a global variable. The following example sets a
global variable flag that Movie2 can act on if it is set to true:

-- Movie1
global gDoStuff
on mouseUp me
gDoStuff = 1
go to movie "Movie2"
end

-- Movie2
global gDoStuff
on prepareMovie
if gDoStuff then
stuff()
gDoStuff = 0
end if
end


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[Sid]

"Mark A. Boyd" <mblist@sanDotrr.com> wrote

> -- Movie1
> global gDoStuff
> on mouseUp me
> gDoStuff = 1
> go to movie "Movie2"
> end
>
> -- Movie2
> global gDoStuff
> on prepareMovie
> if gDoStuff then
> stuff()
> gDoStuff = 0
> end if
> end

Thank you Mark. I was hoping to avoid doing it with global variables, but
that's only me being lazy. :)

Thanks again!
Sid