sequential javascript commands in actionscript

[Nigel]

Hi,

I am trying to make DIV layers disappear on a frame of a movie no
matter how many were opened. So I have a "Forward" into which I have
added the javascript

on (release) {
currentStep = bringmenu.PreviousStep(currentStep);
getURL ("javascript:hideDiv2('dcCon02')");
getURL ("javascript:hideDiv1('dcCon01')");
}

The problem is only the second getURL command is executed. If I swap
them around, it's the same thing. Only the second getURL works. Is
there some way I can combine these or find another work around?

I've tried

getURL ("javascript:hideDiv2('dcCon02')")
("javascript:hideDiv1('dcCon01')");

(all one line)

But no luck.

Thanks,

Nigel

[Brandon Bradley]

Nigel wrote:

> I've tried
>
> getURL ("javascript:hideDiv2('dcCon02')")
> ("javascript:hideDiv1('dcCon01')");
>
> (all one line)

You might try:
getURL ("javascript:hideDiv2('dcCon02');hideDiv1('dcCon01 ')");

Not sure that will work, but it may be worth a try.


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Brandon Bradley
Macromedia Certified Instructor
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[timberfish]

On 2005-04-02 11:01:58 -0800, Nigel <not_real@address.com> said:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to make DIV layers disappear on a frame of a movie no
> matter how many were opened. So I have a "Forward" into which I have
> added the javascript
>
> on (release) {
> currentStep = bringmenu.PreviousStep(currentStep); getURL
> ("javascript:hideDiv2('dcCon02')");
> getURL ("javascript:hideDiv1('dcCon01')");
> }
>
> The problem is only the second getURL command is executed. If I swap
> them around, it's the same thing. Only the second getURL works. Is
> there some way I can combine these or find another work around?
>
> I've tried
>
> getURL ("javascript:hideDiv2('dcCon02')")
> ("javascript:hideDiv1('dcCon01')");
>
> (all one line)
>
> But no luck.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nigel

It'd be better to make a more flexible Javascript function that can
accept paramters from you to tell it which DIV to hide/unhide etc..
then you only have to make 1 JS call at a time. However, if you must
make multiple different calls like this - I would recommend using
setInterval or soem other way of offsetting the calls by at least
300ms. That seems to fix the issue every time.
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[JP]

I've had similar problems, it seemed to me that it was not multiple
javascript that caused the problems, just the first javascript was not
executed. My messy work around was to have a javascript command right at the
start of the code, which didn't work, then the rest appeared to do so.
I thought that maybe javascript somehow wasn't started up and it took one
command to start it. I was experiencing this when running just the swf in
IE. I didn't try any other browsers or an embedded swf.

-JP