Making Sprites visible on seperate frames

Hi. Im trying to get my head around this and it is doing my
head in.
For example, while in frame 1 I want to be able to click a
button which will then make a sprite visible in frame 10, which is
a different page, i.e the sprite is only in frame 10 and the button
is only in frame 1.
If they were on the same page I could use...
on mouseup me
sprite("1").visible=true
end
but because they are on different frames to one another it
tells me there is a property error with "visible". I need to make
the function global some how but not sure how to do this.
PLEASE HELP
Lee

Set a global variable in your mouseUp handler then use that
variable's state
to set the visible of the sprite in frame 10 in its
beginSprite handler
-- put this in a movie script
global gSetVis
on StartMovie
gSetVis = FALSE
end
-- integrate this into the script/behavior for the button
global gSetVis
on mouseUp me
gSetVis = FALSE
end
--Then in frame 10 on the sprite that needs to be made
visible
global gSetVis
on beginSprite me
sprite (me.spriteNum).visible = gSetVis
end
Craig Wollman
Word of Mouth Productions
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"Leegee3" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:eidcn4$be8$[email protected]..
> Hi. Im trying to get my head around this and it is doing
my head in.
>
> For example, while in frame 1 I want to be able to click
a button which
> will
> then make a sprite visible in frame 10, which is a
different page, i.e the
> sprite is only in frame 10 and the button is only in
frame 1.
>
> If they were on the same page I could use...
>
> on mouseup me
> sprite("1").visible=true
> end
>
> but because they are on different frames to one another
it tells me there
> is a
> property error with "visible". I need to make the
function global some
> how but
> not sure how to do this.
>
>
> PLEASE HELP
>
>
> Lee
>

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