Stupid easy questions

1

hey I have several “noob-ed” questons:

  1. Is there any way to do an “if-” statement on a frame?

    • I believe an on- something is needed.

  2. *If I want to create a timer, (this game will be played from a cd) what will dynamically display the time, what will be the best option?
    getTimer()? or a setInterval? What’s the pro’s / con’s of both?

  3. I seem to have a depth issue where a mc seems to over lap the other mc even though perspective wise it shouldn’t (sorry bad wording) basically how do I intertwine two mc top/bottom? I hear “swap-” something does the job?

sorry for the handful of questions… thanks.

2

yer how are you going to use the if statement on the frame? usually if you used an if statement on the frame it would be inside a function created on the frame.

3

i dont know about your depth thing but you time, i found an example on http://www.n99creations.com.

4

_root.movieclip.swapDepths(number or _getNextHighestDepth)

5

ah thanks for the reply, but I have a follow up…

For the if statement on a frame, If I wanted to say compare something would this work?

function test(x) {
if (x==0)
do this;
}

test(0);

without a handler?

For the swap method,

_root.movieclip.swapDepths(*number* or _getNextHighestDepth)

is 0 the highest in rank?

6

0 is lowest
As far as I know, anyhting that you draw/drag on to the stage manually gets a negative depth value.

7

try it…

function test();
if (5=>20){
trace (“5 is equal to less then ten”);
}
test ();