_currentframe label

[buggedcom]

anybody know how to detect if a frame has a label on it? i tried

_currentframe._name

but came back undefined?

[buggedcom]

no worries found this by senocular

http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=810

[senocular]

no way to tell what label a frame is but you can check it specifically whether it is a label or not
see
http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=810

[edit] buggedcom beat me to it [/edit]

[CyanBlue]

Howdy, buggedcom...

I do not think there is anything that Macromedia have stashed beneath the Flash regarding this 'frame label' property...

I think you know this already, but see this thread for my labor intensive ways of doing it... This is the only way I could think of and this is how I use for now... I just wish this gets in the next version of Flash...

[CyanBlue]

Wow... That's interesting one, senocular...

Actually changing the playhead to see if condition meets???

Nice...

[buggedcom]

yeah it's a nice one senocular, the only thing is if the thing returns false i get an unresponsive message

i've setup a fla like so you can see what i mean

[buggedcom]

forgot the zip

[buggedcom]

cb, i think i might do it your way, as i only have 6 labels anyway, unless senocular can tell me whats wrong in my fla

[senocular]

Ive actually never used the code but looking at your example I see a potentially nasty 'bug' in its implementation.

That being that all code within that frame and the frame of the label checked will be run as the playhead does pass through those frames (even if not reflected on screen, the script in those frames are run).

So, if isAtLabel is called within the frame, it checkes the label, if different, goes to that frame, then returns to the currentframe which would then re-call the that frames script, which if containing the isAtLabel function call repeats the process in an infinite loop.

I put a warning at proto though I dont think there's much in the way of getting around that based on this method of interpreting a frame label match.

[buggedcom]

yes i thought as much... is there not something in the ASetPropFlags that would deal with this ? I am not yet familiar with them but i thought i would ask? Anways if not CB's is as good as any.

thanks for looking into it.