problems with global variable in do while loop 1

[goaganesha]

Hello,

Here's the problem. I've made a pop up menu in flash but it closes right away when the mouse leaves the menu. I want to make some sort of a counter so the menu stays open for a second after the mouse leaves the menu.
In the first frame of the main scene I've created a global variable.

menu1closing = false;

I want this variable to become true when the mouse leaves the menu and then go back to false after 1 second.

so the menu will only close when
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
if (! _root.menu1closing)
{
code to close the menu
}
}

to make the variable true I've put this "do while" loop before the previous "if statement"


counter = 0;
do
{
trace (counter);
counter = counter + 1;
}
while (counter < 12 )

this works fine , it counts till 11 and stops


from the moment I change the code to


counter = 0;
do
{
trace (counter);
_root.menu1closing = true;
counter = counter + 1;
}
while (counter < 12 )



an endless loop is being created and the global variable never goes back to false which means the menu stays open.
Does anyone understand what's going wrong?


regards, goaganesha

 

[davdesign]

an endless loop is being created and the global variable never goes back to false which means the menu stays open

You explained it yourself. Have a look at:

http://www.pinkzeppelin.com/tektips/out-timer.html

http://www.pinkzeppelin.com/tektips/out-timer.zip

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^​

 

[goaganesha]

thanks for the help, Dave


regards, goaganesha