I want to reference a scene name in

[carpeliam]

I want to reference a scene name in a variable - for instance, I want to be able to say:

gotoAndStop(mySceneString, myFrameLabel);

however, this is giving me an error, saying "Scene name must be quoted string". I tried the following:

gotoAndStop(new String(mySceneString), myFrameLabel);

but that still didn't work. Is this sort of thing possible? Otherwise, there is no way to automate this.. and the only way to get around this would be:

if (mySceneString == "scene01&quot gotoAndStop("scene01", myFrameLabel);

this would be highly inefficient, and it doesn't seem like Flash would make such a restriction... is there another way to go about this? Thank you for your time... Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
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[Guest_imported]

Here is the code
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", "test"
}
test is the lable in scene two, so I believe what it wants is to put your scene name in quotes "Scene 2". Set up your variable like that and see if it works.

 

[oldnewbie]

Frame labels should be unique! Simply target that label, no need to target the scene name, which wouldn't work from within a movie clip either:

_root.gotoAndPlay("myFrameLabel" Regards,

 

[carpeliam]

kirbsc thanks but I did already know the code, as I showed in my post.

Thanks, oldnewbie, for your response. That was what I was afraid of Here's my problem. I'm making a node graph. The player can be anywhere on a two dimensional grid, with coordinates x and y.

<code>x = 5;
y = 4;</code>

each scene in flash corresponds to a node; they are named &quot;node00&quot;, &quot;node01&quot;, etc. Each node corresponds to a point on the grid:

<code>node[2][4] = &quot;node00&quot;;
node[5][4] = &quot;node01&quot;;</code>

Finally, the player can be facing east, west, south or north. These are frame labels in each individual scene. There is a direction variable that keeps track of their current direction:

<code>direction = &quot;EAST&quot;</code>

Then when a player moves, I want to say the following:

<code>gotoAndStop(node[x][y], direction)</code>

where they go to the corresponding scene facing in a particular direction. Unfortunately, for reasons I don't understand, variables can't be used for scene names.. so what it seems what I'll have to do is make frame labels global (as in your suggestion, oldnewbie), like &quot;node00WEST&quot;, &quot;node01WEST&quot;, etc. Does anyone see another solution? Could anybody tell me why only enquoted strings are acceptable? Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;

 

[oldnewbie]

Movie clip instances can be referred to with variables, using the associative array syntax.

mySceneString = &quot;Scene 2&quot;;

on (press) {
trace (_root[&quot;mySceneString&quot;]);
_root.gotoAndStop(_root[&quot;mySceneString&quot;], &quot;myFrameLabel&quot;
}

Tried it with scene names and altough a trace action will output the correct scene name in the above, it seems that it won't work when targeting a scene name that way. So guess the unique label is your only way out. Unless I'm missing something, which is another possibility! Regards,