variables and gotoAndPlay

[DeepBlerg]

I'm using the following actionscript a few times in my movie:

gotoAndPlay(myvalue+"location"

For example:
if myvar is equal to 5. It actually goes to the frame labelled "3location". In other words, it subtracts two all by itself.

To combat this I have to do this:
gotoAndPlay((myvalue+2)+"location"

Is there an issue with vars and gotoAndPlay, am I overlooking something?

 

[oldnewbie]

If you're talking framelabel, having a label start by a number is a very bad idea.
And do you happen to have a 2 frame preloader? Or some other 2 frame scene, preceding this scene you're navigating in?

Regards,

 

[PaulFynch]

put the number at the end if you can...
then create another variable

myFrameLabel="location"+myValue;
_root.myMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(myFrameLabel);

cheers

 

[DeepBlerg]

oldnewbie,

Yeh I do have a 3 frame preloader in scene 1. how does this effect it?

 

[oldnewbie]

Since you put a number at the beginning of your frame label, I think Flash is confused and considers that as a frame number and not a frame label. When using a goto with a frame number, most of the time, Flash sees it as a cumulative frame number, the sum of all frames in all previous scenes to the targeted frame...
So if you're targeting frame 2 of a scene 2, and your scene 1 holds 3 frames, you then have to actually target frame 5 (3+2=5), to get to the right frame. This is error prone, and if you edit any scene previous to your targeted frame, then you'll have to correct and edit all of your gotos. Much better to use a frame label (at least not starting off with a number!), since the label is allways attached to one particular frame, no matter how many edits you make in the previous scenes.

Regards,