Adding amounts in edge animate

Question

I'm looking to create a set of buttons that would add certain numbers together.
For example: If I click a button it adds the number 7 to a box, then if you click another button it adds 4 to the same box making it 11. I then want to set a variable saying if box equals 11 play animation.
Is this doable in edge animate?

Answer 1

Hi there,
The problem with getting html from the text element is it returns a string. In Javascript, adding a number to a string just appends the number to the existing string. To convert a string into an integer, use Javascript's parseInt method. So a slight modifcation to Elaine's code:
// this gets the string from myTextBox and converts it to an integer
var text = parseInt(sym.$("myTextBox").html());
// next you are adding two integers...
text = text + 4;
sym.$("myTextBox").html(text);
if (text == 11) {
    sym.play();
hth,
Joe