Passing Variables from MC's to main scene

[skrause]

To the fellowship:

Greetings. I am developing a tool that has a calculator within Flash that accepts form inputs, completes the calculation, and should pass the calculation result to the proper form input box.

The calculator is within a movie clip. It performs the calculation just fine, but I can not get the result passed to the input box from the MC.

Any suggestions on what I am missing? I have tried using tellTarget within the calculator MC to tell the top-level input box to equal the result of the calc w/in the MC to no avail.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

 

[oldnewbie]

Have you tried setting the variables in the main movie and use those named variables in the calculator mc?

i.e.
_root.var1 = so&so;

That way, variables should be global to the whole movie and mcs.

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[skrause]

old:

I set the variable as you described within the MC, using a button click inside the MC to set it.

Thanks for the tip!
Steve