Hey guys,
First post here, and I need help…I’m a graphic designer trying to muddle through enough AS to create a bilingual site and I would apreciate it immeasurably if someone could offer me some advice with an AS dilemma. So here goes…
I start it off by setting a variable, “currentlang” upon clicking either the “english” or “french” button. Like so:
[COLOR=blue]on (release) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]_global.currentlang = 1; [COLOR=dimgray]//english[/COLOR]
_parent.gotoAndStop(3); [COLOR=gray]//action begins on the 3rd frame of main movie[/COLOR]
}[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]or[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]on (release) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]_global.currentlang = 0; [COLOR=dimgray]//french[/COLOR]
_parent.gotoAndStop(3);
}[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]It seems to work fine. We’re in.[/COLOR]
Then I’ve created a function in my main movie that toggles the language back and forth from English to French by telling movie clips on the stage to go to the frame with French/English content. Here’s the code on the timeline of the main movie:
[COLOR=blue]toggleLanguage = function () { if (_global.currentlang == 0) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]content.gotoAndPlay(2);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]_global.currentlang=1;[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]} else if[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue](_global.currentlang == 1){[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]content.gotoAndPlay(1);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]_global.currentlang=0;[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]
Here’s the code on my button that I click to toggle back and forth:
[COLOR=blue]on (release) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]_parent.toggleLanguage();[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]
This works fine for the clips on the main movie, but what happens when I load in external SWF’s. How could I make my function “toggleLanguage” talk to newly loaded clips? On the external clip I’m loading in, I have the following code on the timeline:
[COLOR=blue]if (_global.currentlang == 1) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]this.header.gotoAndPlay(1);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]} else if (_global.currentlang == 0) {[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]this.header.gotoAndPlay(2);[/COLOR]
[COLOR=blue]}[/COLOR]
This works fine when the new movie loads in, meaning that if my [COLOR=blue]"_global.currentlang" [/COLOR][COLOR=black]on the container movie is set to French, the loaded SWF will display “Bienvenue” rather than “welcome”, and vice versa. The problem arises when I[/COLOR][COLOR=black] try to toggle the language. It only toggles the language of the clips on the main timeline and not the newly loaded ones. Like I said, any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is starting to drive me bananas, not being an experienced scripter and all. [/COLOR]
Have at it!
Thanks!
Matt
