making persistant variables?

[CGann]

This is for a clock display- I've got a dropdown populated by an xml file that has a date/time offset for various locations (var = myLoc).
I also have a function that uses the myLoc value passed from the dropdown. This function cycles every 60 seconds to call another function and get some other data. I would like it to keep using the original value of myLoc until the user selects something else from the dropdown but it keeps resetting the myLoc value to null.

Any ideas?

this.onEnterFrame = function():Void {
yourDate = new Date();
yourHours = yourDate.getHours();
yourMins = Number(yourDate.getMinutes());
yourSecs = Number(yourDate.getSeconds()) ;
yourMilliSecs = Number(yourDate.getMilliseconds()) ;

if (yourMins<10){yourMins = "0" + String(yourMins);};
if (yourSecs<10){yourSecs = "0" + String(yourSecs);};
// Cycle every 60 seconds
if (yourSecs==0 && yourMilliSecs<90){
loadWCLocData(myLoc);
}
// LOCAL Time display
localTimeBox.htmltext = yourHours + ":" + yourMins + ":" + yourSecs ;
// DESTINATION Time display
destTimeBox.htmltext = dspSelLocHour+ ":" + dspSelLocMin + ":" +yourSecs ;
};

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Once a variable is set, it will not get altered unless you tell Flash to do so.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[Leozack]

Perhaps the place looking for myLoc and finding 'null' when you want it to find whatever your default value is doesn't have the right scope. Try making myLoc a global variable and see if that changes anything maybe?
_global.myLoc = "default";
After that any scope should be able to read that in and it will only be overidden by (I think) a more local scope eg if you said inside a function somewhere
myLoc = "test";
trace(myLoc);
you'd get test

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