AdobeEdge - Using variables within a symbol

I am completely new to Adobe edge, but I do have a little development experience (VB, VBA, C#). I would like to create a global variable when the animation starts (strClicked = "No" - or similar). When one of the buttons is clicked on I would like to set this variables to "Yes". Finally, I want several symbols to stop playing (their fade-out), if the variable has been set to "Yes". I'm sure this is quite a straightforward thing to do, but have having a little trouble, and finding it difficult to find good documentation (any suggestions would be greatly appreciated).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Andrew,
You should nest each animation in a symbol, say pink, green, yellow. Each is instanciated on stage and given respectively the IDs
pink1, green1, yellow1.
Then your button has a click event handler with code
sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("pink1").stop();
sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("green1").stop();
sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("yellow1").stop();
sym = the button's timeline
getComposition().getStage() = back to the stage's timeline
getSymbol("xxx") = select a symbol's instance with name "xxx"
Here is an example : https://www.box.com/s/h38s2oexqdumm46v4q7d
I didn't used any global variable : may be you have a good reason to use it ?
Gil

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:53:55 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using variables within GETurl
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The intent behind your trial is a global variable.
1) Let us be as simple as possible :
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UpButton symbol : UpSquare.click event handler
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Gil

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