Setting a variable that I can call it's value from any symbol.

Question

Hey everyone!
I'm working on an edge animate game and I'm learning as I go you can say
The way I have it set up is I have a container that holds different symbols depending on which button you click on. They symbols open you up to a deeper part of the game.
However I want to be able to set a variable on the stage that I can later manipulate when the different symbols are open.
What I have so far is my limited understaning of jquery, in the stage I start off by setting a variable
var variable1 =     5,
    variable2 =     10;
Then in my symbol I want to be able to do something like this
if(variable1 > variable2) {
Then do something
else {
Then do something else
variable1 = 10
variable2 = 5
However the problem I am having is that when I set the variable value in the stage the entire variable name and value is not rememembered in the symbols.
So is there any code I could write in the symbols that can call the variables defined in the stage into the symbols.
Thank you so much for any help. It is greatly appreciated .

Answer 1

Hi, I've literally just solved this problem for myself! I've been unable to get variables remembered within symbols too. This will be familiar if you've accessed the Stage from within a symbol already, like so (this kind-of takes a step back and takes you to the main stage from within the symbol):
sym.getComposition().getStage().$("anElement").hide();
The way I've updated the score (displayed on the stage) from within a symbol it is to GET the variable from the stage:
var score = sym.getComposition().getStage().getVariable("score");
score += 100;
sym.getComposition().getStage().$("valueDisplay").html(score);
sym.getComposition().getStage().setVariable("score", score);
So for you I'd recommend:
var variable1 = sym.getComposition().getStage().getVariable("variable1");
var variable2 = sym.getComposition().getStage().getVariable("variable");
if(variable1 > variable2) { this }
else { that }
If you wanted to update the variables and store them on the stage, then you'd do that similarly:
variable1++;
sym.getComposition().getStage().setVariable("variable1", variable1")
Hope this helps, I may not be 100% and it may be explained better as I'm learning as I go myself!
Ray