cannot validate external variable once in flash

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Dear people

I m new to action script and i have the following problem.

I have a Flash movie. Where the user can type a number in flash dinamic text field
and depending on what number they type a circle will beging to rotate.
So if the user types 90 the circle should rotate 90 degrees.

Until here all works fine.

But i wanted to embed this to an HTML page which is what i wanted.
I can make HTML and flash to communicate using a bit of Javascript found on macromedia.

So my example contains a HTML page with a text box that as you see communicates with the flash movie to get the number through this HTML text box.

Until here all is fine.

But the problem i have is that once i have the variable in flash i cannot validate it and change the control of my movie:(


//The following code doesnt work/

if (myVar==&quot;&quot { // variable got from HTML, i also tried myVar<> &quot;&quot; and != and &quot;ed&quot; but nothing((
stop();
} else if (myVar<>&quot;&quot {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}


I have attached two movies in this.

The first movie that done in Flash everything works fine.
can be found here for demo:

http://www26.brinkster.com/kthoulou/myrotation.html

and the full source here:

http://www26.brinkster.com/kthoulou/myrotation1.zip

but my seccond movie doesnt work as i want
and is here for the demo:

http://www26.brinkster.com/kthoulou/myrotation2.html

and for download here:

http://www26.brinkster.com/kthoulou/myrotation2.zip

The event is activated by a user click.

On the seccond i managed to make HTML and flash to communicate but i cannot make the movie to go on frame 2 when i want.
And what i want is to go on frame two when the HTML number field is in Flash number field.

Sorry for my english i hope somebody will understand what i want.


Please help.

 

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I went home and ive noticed a problem on downloading the zip files.

sorry for this.

Here is the correct link for download the two examples

http://www26.brinkster.com/kthoulou/correctlink.htm

i hope this works.

 

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all i want is to understand how can i move the timeline depending on variable validation?????????
please help

 

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to make thing more clear.
the first movie works fine because there is a button with the goto and play action.

but imagine this without butons.

what i want is once the movie opens to wait for the variable.

then if the variable is a number then to play.

it seems that i cannot make the movie to play with my variable validation.

 

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Problem solved