back button solution and if statements

[Ricod]

I'm trying to get Robert Penners excelent back button solution.( For those who don't know, now u can use the back button of yer browser to navigate bac and forth within your flash file) Anyway, at the moment I'm using if statements to check which frame to go back/forth to. IS there a faster way to check where to go to ?

Also, since the backbutton can't be used to invoke actions like a flash button (or maybe it can, but someone has to tell me that then) I have a clip constantly looping to check wether or not the the variable changed. Is there a more efficient method ? This slows down my animations.

[fpanko]

wow, i'm not sure where to go after all that if you want to make a button in flash, which sends the browser backa page(like the one at the top of the browser), then you can use javascript inside a get URL action. I have a file you can grab with an example in it on my site.
www.geckoarts.com
under june12
Since you file is looping indefinitly, this will also need to be in an "if" statement for use in a frame action. If you are useing it in a button that appears through ou the loop, you should be o.k..
Hope this helps, frank

[Ricod]

no, no ! I have the back button working, but since u cannot use the back button of your browser like a flash-button I have to send a variable to the flash movie and constantly check wether or not that variable has changed. But I use if statements including all posebilities. Even though the entire function has only 15 lines or so, I'd rather do it in less.

But I'm an intermediate AS-er and a total newbie to Arrays etc. I heard they're faster than seperate variables but am not sure of my source. So my actual question is :
what is the fastest way to check a variable if u already know all the posibilities ?