Very easy If statement

[ericsalvi]

Hi all... I did something stupid and saved over a file that was already working.

What I have is a an external "Home" movie and what it does is on the main movie I have a target that says "begining" then after that target it does something then goes to an "opendoor" target.

In the "home" movie I had an if statement that did something like

If this is the first time this movie is loaded
gotoandplay begining
else
gotoandplay opendoors

anyone know how i can accomplish this? I really had it before and was working great, then I made a mistake and can't think how I got it before.

Thank you Eric

[NTD]

Hi,

Assuming your referring to using a shared object to remember if a visitor has visited the site before...

stop();
mySharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("savedObject");
_root.onLoad = function() {
	if (mySharedObject.data.visited) {
		_root.gotoAndStop("visited");
	} else {
		mySharedObject.data.visited = true;
		mySharedObject.flush();
		result = mySharedObject.flush();
		if (result) {
			//all good
		} else if (!result) {
			//user at never -- prompt user 
			System.showSettings(1);
		}
		_root.play();
	}
}

[ericsalvi]

I'm actually trying to do this.

if (_root.onLoad)
{	
	_root.play("begining");
}
else
{
	_root.gotoAndPlay("opendoors");
	gotoAndPlay(5);
}

I have this code on my external SWF file.. then what I want is if this movie has loaded for the first time... play begining.. else (meaning if it has been loaded before play opendoors.

does that make any sense?

[ericsalvi]

I got it... thank you for trying.. here is the code that works for me.

if (_root.section != "home")
{
_root.play("begining");
}
else if (_root.section == "home")
{
_root.gotoAndPlay("opendoors");
gotoAndPlay(5);
}