changing a variable inside movie clip?? :S

[DeadCell]

ok, well what i am trying to do is this, i have a movie clip

links_bg

and inside it i have a variable "show_links" that is set to false

i am trying to set it to true from the _root like this

_root.links_bg.show_links = true;

in an onRelease action... i wont work tho :( *sulks* any idea why? am i doing it wrong?

[annexion]

How are you setting show_links to false? If it is an onEnterFrame, then no matter how many times you press the button for true, it will revert to false.

Post some code here and we might better be able to work with you.

Good luck.

[DeadCell]

um, ok..

this is the movie clip:

onClipEvent (load) {
show_links = false;
fade_speed = 20;
this._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (show_links) {
if (this._alpha<100) {
this._alpha += fade_speed;
}
} else {
if (this._alpha>0) {
this._alpha -= fade_speed;
}
}
}

and the on release action looks like:

on (release) {
if (!links) {
_root.links_bg.show_links = true;
links = true;
} else {
_root.links_bg.show_links = true;
links = false;
}
}

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