Boolean Values That Use && || &&

programming flash
1

I am trying to set up if function like this.

my current song position >=1 and my current song position <2
play song 2

You write it like this

if (song.position >=1 && song.position <=2){
gotoandplay(100)

I would like to add another set of paramiters

my current song position >=3 and my current song position <4
play song 2

I have tried to write it like this

if (song.position >=1 && song.position <=2 || song.position >=3 && song.position <4 ){
gotoandplay(100)

The code above does not work. What am I doing wrong?

2

Did you try using “or” instead of “||”

If it doesn’t work, don’t mind me, I don’t know what I am talking about. ::slinks into corner::

3

try using brackets so that your order of operations in the if statement is explicit. flash evaluates && before ||.

trace(false && false || true);
// traces true

trace(false && (false || true));
// traces false

your current if statement in english reads:
if song.position equals 1 or 2 or 3 go to and play 10.

is that what you mean?

4

Beta, I’ll try the or, but I don’t think it will work:rambo:

sbeener, Yes that is excactly what I want my if statement to say.
I am really trying to put an audio loop over another audio loop in time by rolling over a button and having the second loop start on beat 1,2,3 or 4 of the main loop.

What do you want me to do with the trace command?

What about the else if command to put the multible staments?

5

Just use different if statments instead of the ||, works great.

Thanks people:)

6

waffe, the traces were meant to illustrate how order of evaluation will change the results.

if that was what you wanted why not say:

sp = song.position;
if(sp > 0 && sp < 4) gotoAndPlay(10);

but if you have it working now probably best not to change it. ; )

7

Nice idea but lets say that “sp = 1” is the first beat of the song and “sp = 2” is the second beat of the song and so forth.

Lets say then when I click a button a new sound starts that fits in very well with the ongoing song when it starts on beat 1,2,3 or 4.

There for if I used
button_btn.onpress = function(){
if(sp > 0 && sp < 4){
sound2.play()
}
}

The new loop could start any time after I click the button except after beat 4. Most likely this would not sound right because the new loop did not start on beat 1,2,3 or 4.

Thus, I need more resolution in my “if statements” to dictate when my new sound can play.

New problem on this topic, if you would please look at thread “refresh rate = frames or ?”