I’ve been playing with writing a simple script that would entirely depend on a few variables declared right on top of it. Is there a way of changing them (in my case values of p, q, a & b) with a button if the button is part of the script?
Here’s the script (just copy and paste entire thing into the first frame);
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//number of buttons & images
var n = 4;
//indexing of buttons and images starts from:
var k = 0;
//starting left align point (_x value):
var p = 100;
//starting left align point (_y value) for images and buttons:
var q = 100;
//movie clip width:
a = 400;
//movie clip height:
b = 200;
//create a script assigning RGB color to a clip
function combineRGB (red, green, blue) {
//combine the color values into a single number
var RGB = (red << 16) | (green << 8) | blue;
return RGB;
}
MovieClip.prototype.setRGB = function (colorValue) {
new Color (this).setRGB (colorValue);
};
//set colors:
color0 = combineRGB (44, 115, 30);
color1 = combineRGB (76, 98, 139);
color2 = combineRGB (124, 54, 52);
color3 = combineRGB (92, 92, 118);
color4 = combineRGB (119, 91, 80);
color5 = combineRGB (132, 74, 50);
white = combineRGB (255, 255, 255);
grey = combinedRGB (127, 127, 127);
black = combineRGB (0, 0, 0);
//declare a new Array: “colors” for retrieving values later
colors = [color0, color1, color2, color3, color4, color5, white, grey, black];
//create a movie clip:
this.createEmptyMovieClip (“container_mc”, 200);
this.container_mc.moveTo (p, q);
this.container_mc.beginFill (0xFF0000);
this.container_mc.lineTo (p + a, q);
this.container_mc.lineTo (p + a, q + 200);
this.container_mc.lineTo (p, q + 200);
this.container_mc.lineTo (p, q);
this.container_mc.endFill;
//create buttons for controlling which images will slide into position
for (i = k; i < n; i++) {
this.createEmptyMovieClip (“btn” + i + “_mc”, i + 100);
//button height:
var bh = 8;
//spacing between buttons:
var bs = 8;
//button width:
var bw = (a - (n - 1) * bs) / n;
//button distance from the container clip:
var bd = bh * 2;
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].moveTo (p, q - bd);
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].beginFill (0xFF0000);
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].lineTo (p + bw, q - bd);
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].lineTo (p + bw, q - (bd - bh));
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].lineTo (p, q - (bd - bh));
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].lineTo (p, q - bd);
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].endFill;
//position buttons:
for (r = k + 1; r < n; r++) {
this[“btn” + r + “_mc”]._x = (this[“btn” + (r - 1) + “_mc”]._x) + (this[“btn” + (r - 1) + “_mc”]._width + bs);
}
}
for (i = k; i < n; i++) {
this[“btn” + i + “_mc”].onRelease = function () {
var btNameString = getProperty (this, _name);
t = btNameString.charAt (3);
container_mc.setRGB (colors[t]);
};
}
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I would want my container (and buttons since they’re attached) to change position or size when the buttons are clicked so essentially I’d like to be able to change p and q values.
