Recently, "Barry Levine" wrote: > I'm not ready to report this as a bug because I may be doing something > wrong. Consider these few lines of code contained within an image image > object referencing a gif: > > on mouseUp > global theEffect -- holds the name of the effect we want > hide me with visual theEffect > wait 1 second > show me > end mouseUp > > I have a number of buttons whose labels are "wipe left", "wipe up", > "wipe down", and the other effects that Rev contains. Here's an example: > > on mouseUp > global theEffect > put the label of me into theEffect > end mouseUp > > This should place the name of the effect into the var theEffect. > > So what happens when all this runs? The first button I click on sets > the effect but the effect does -not- change to anything else when I > click on a different button. In other words: If I click on the "wipe > left" button and then click the image object, I do get the proper > effect. However, when I click on any other button, the effect does not > change unless I close (& remove from memory) and then re-open the > stack. Even then, the reults seem to be inconsistent.
Not sure if it's a bug (could be that Rev doesn't understand a two word effect name stored in a variable) but there is a workaround: do "hide me with visual" && theEffect Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design ----- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution