dynamic _visible

[violetfemme]

Hi... New to the boards and I've found them very helpful. There are some great experts here! But I'm trying to do something very similar to what was done in this thread. I've got a state map that has counties that are all movie clips (county001_mc, county002_mc, etc....) And a text document that's formatted "&county1=true&county2=false".

Basically what is going on is that if county1=true, then the movie clip county001_mc needs to be visible. If county 2=false then the movie clip county002_mc needs to be not visible and so on and so on.

I've tried working through the examples in the above thread, but it's just not working. Any help? I'm using Flash MX2004

Thanks in advance!

[tg]

try:
country001_mc._visible=country1;

if your using loadVars() object to load the data into flash, then try:
country001_mc._visible=myLoadVarsObjectInstanceNam e.country1;

[violetfemme]

Got that logic... hoped it would be that simple! Thanks so much... though I think I'm screwing up the loadVariables now. I can't find any examples that don't include loading the results into a component or text box or something. Any tips?

This forum is for newbies, right?

[tg]

don't use loadVariables, use the LoadVars() object. its much easier to deal with.

[violetfemme]

Thanks!

So I've got

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.load("data.txt");
myData.onLoad = function(){
     county001_mc._visible=myData.county1;
     county002_mc._visible=myData.county2;
};

But it's not working.

I really am a dunderhead when it comes to LoadVars. How can I tell if my data has loaded?

[stealthelephant]

all is fine part from the onLoad function, it expects a bool var to be passed

PHP Code:

mydate = new . . . //ur code
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
//ur code
}
else
trace("wocca wocca wocca");
}; 


[violetfemme]

Thanks! Finally... I understand LoadVars! That's letting me know that the data is loaded... it's just nothing is happening with it.

So it's this part that isn't working.

county001_mc._visible=myData.county1;
county002_mc._visible=myData.county2;

Do I need to parse or something? Do a little dance? Say a little prayer?

[stealthelephant]

use
county1 or
this.county2
no
myData.county1 etc

cos u are inside ur loadvars obj already and u are looking for another obj called myData inside here

[violetfemme]

It's still not working. How frustrating!

My text doc reads...

&statement1=true&statement2=false

My actionscript is...

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.load("data.txt");
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
square._visible=statement1;
circle._visible=statement2;
}
else {
trace("I ain't working, yo");
}
}

I've attached both in a zip file. Any more ideas? I know it has to be something simple I'm overlooking!

[tg]

well, i don't have mx2004, so i can't open you file but this should work, if its finding your file:

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.load("data.txt");
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
trace(this.statement1);
trace(this.statement2);
}
}

there may be a path problem to your movieclips... if you've got the wrong path to your movie clips, it won't be able to change the visibility.


another problem, and its the likely culprit, is that your variables are being brought into flash as Strings. so myMC._visible="false" won't do what you want (which is myMC._visible=false). if you change true/false to 1/0, it should work, flash will evalute the string "1" to true, and the string "0" to false.