having a problem with if statement

hiya,

okay heres the deal i am trying to set up a toggle for music and some other options and the only way i can figure out how to do this is to set up flag variables which set the option to on or off

<img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/theshack98/example.png" border="0" />

but when i do this it just seems to culminate in another layer of music on top of the existing layer/s of music. It seems to discount the fact that the variable music has been changed.

Create a local variable under event 2 (name "hasChanged" for example, number)

Event 3 add an action set hasChanged to 1

Event 4 and 5 add a condition "hasChanged = 1"

Event 4 and 5 add an action "hasChanged = 0"

It will allow to prevent the "automatic switching" since it will execute event 5 only if "hasChanged = 1", that is to say that music = 0 AND event4 wasn't executed yet, since hasChanged is still = 1

thanks for the response i am a bit of a noob at this and i am trying to understand what you are saying here. Now so you are saying create another test variable which i use in conjunction with my global variable music?

Yes that's it exactly.

okie dokie so this is what i have, must be close eh? sorry bout this but am still trying to learn this structure, it doesn't seem to want to behave like a simple if..then..else sort of scenario

<img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/theshack98/example2.png" border="0" />

lol okay i've fixed the problem, thanks for your help!

morpheous,

what was the fix? so we don't have to chase the oracle down for the answer.

This manual article is useful in solving the current situation.

To correct morpheous' last screenshot :

Event4 and 5 must be mixed into a single event of 2 conditions.

Same for 6 and 7.

Yep sure thing, here it is

<img src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/theshack98/example3.png" border="0" />