Mc variable linkage

1

I have an mc on the mainstage, that contains 5 other mc’s.
Those 5 mc’s are instances of the same mc, with different Instance names.
Those mc’s are told to do different stuff via AS depending on the user’s interaction (the mc’s can be in a certain amount of different states).

This first part is working fine, but now i need to be able to change the state (reset) when the user clicks on it, and set a variable that that mc is in that state.

since you can not put different variables, in instances of the same mc, [color=blue]i’m wondering if there’s a way to link your variable location to one lower level[/color].
Then i can put the 5 mc’s in 5 seperate mc’s which contain the state-variables.

So like in html/dos you can link to “…/whatever”. Instead of giving the _root.whatever because the seperate mc doesn’t know which mc he is (on of 5), so then all mc’s would link to the same instance and all have the same state-var.

Hope i made this clear to someone :stuck_out_tongue: and that it’s possible.

2

put your child mc in 5 different mcs.

so you have 5 mcs which look exactly the same and when you make changes to the child mc, the changes are reflected everywhere.

3

yeah thats already the case.
but they all need independent variables.

4

Not entirely sure what you are doing but this may help.

5

not exactly what i meant, but i can definately use the technique to solve the problem.

Thanks!