VB/Flash help

[rds747]

I am using VB6 and Flash8.

I have a text input with instance name: CraneReady and variable name: txtCraneReady. The text of the text input is set as "Test".

The Vb Project has a button that triggers the fscommand and changes the value of the text input to "CraneReady".

Once I get the value CraneReady in the text input, I would like to create a new movie clip. However, the code isn't working accordingly.

Here is the code:

var txtCraneReady:String = "Test";
fscommand(sVariable, sValue);
if (CraneReady.text == "CRANEREADY")
{
	this.createEmptyMovieClip("Sample_mc", 0);
	//Gantry_mc.loadMovie("Sample.png");
}

Please help!

 

[pixl8r]

Do an event handler for the change event of the text field. (also BTW you don't need both instance name and variable name on the text field and should use only one. I would recommend instance name).

So it would be something like.

txtField.onChanged = function(txtField:TextField){
	if (txtField.text == "CraneReady"){
		trace("That's it!");
	}
}

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[rds747]

I just read in the help section for the onChanged event that it would only be triggered if there was user interaction and not programmatically. This means that I would not be able to use the fscommand that communicates from vb to flash and vice versa.

So if I clicked a button on the vb form, the onChanged event would not fire from Flash?