Thanks so much for your insight here -- it was indeed correct that the radio
buttons were being triggered after the onclick handler. Your script does also
work -- thanks!
I had found my script at:
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_15174
Which is pretty old, but since I was trying to export to an older flash format
I thought it should work. Did this script EVER work?
-- Randal
At 4:57 PM -0500 8/1/06, phaedrus wrote:
>The radio button is changing state after the clip event fires. Because of
>this:
>
>When you first click "High", nothing has been set yet. After the event is
>done, the "High" radio button gets set on.
>
>The next time you check, the "High" radio button is on when the clip event
>is fired and this is reported, regardless of which you clicked on. After
>the clip event is done firing, the new state gets set.
>
>And so on.
>
>If you're not committed to adding the script to the container movie clip,
>you can try the following (based on the docs here:
>http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.ht
>m?href=Part4_ASLR2.html )
>
>
>Name the movie clip containing your buttons (eg: mcSpeedbuttons).
>Alternatively, this clip isn't necessary and the buttons can be put on the
>main timeline w/o a container.
>
>I changed the data parameter on the buttons from "speed" to "High" and
>"Low", respectively.
>
>I named the empty top layer in your flash app "actions" and added the
>following actionscript to the first frame of the timeline in that layer:
>
>speedButtonListener = new Object();
>speedButtonListener.click = function (evt) {
> trace("You selected " + evt.target.selection.data);
> dyntext.text = evt.target.selection.data;
>}
>
>mcSpeedbuttons.buttonGroup.addEventListener("click",speedButtonListener);
>
>Testing the app, it seems to work like this.
>
>- phaedrus
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randal
>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:30 PM
>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>Subject: [Flashcoders] Strange Radio Button Behavior Problem
>
>I have come across what looks like a bug to me in the behavior of the
>radiobutton component in Flash 8 Pro.
>
>I have posted a movie at:
>
>http://huntingdesign.com/radioproblem/radioproblem.html
>
>And the source FLA at:
>
>http://huntingdesign.com/radioproblem/radioproblem.fla
>
>
>Here is the code applied to the movieclip that contains the radio buttons:
>
>onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
> if(hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, false)) {
>for (item in this) {
> rButton = this[item];
> if (rButton.getState()) {
> trace ("You selected "+rButton.getLabel());
> _root.dyntext.text = rButton.getLabel();
>
> }
>}
> }
>}
>
>This is taken pretty much straight from the Macromedia docs on radio
>buttons. The behavior I see is that with one click nothing happens. With
>another click the selected button get darkened, but no label is reported to
>the dynamic text area or to the trace. Then with a click on the other radio
>button the PREVIOUSLY SELECTED button now is reported. After that point
>always the previously selected button is always reported, so if you click on
>a button multiple times it reports the other button first then itself.
>
>All I am trying to do here is create a simple interface to toggle between
>two states in a movie, which I thought would be a logical use for radio
>buttons -- but this is really frustrating.
>
>
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