Score System ActionScript 3 Flash CS5

[kyled2012]

Hi everyone,
I am making a game (actually more like 5 games) in Adobe Flash CS5 using actionscript 3 and i need a bit of help making the score system work.

My game is on frame 5, and i have 2 variables in frame 5, Name (Player name) and Time (Playing Time) i want to do 2 things with these variables;

In frame 4 i have the "You lose, try again" screen, which i want to read the playing time but it doesnt, code is this:
playing_time.text = Time;
but it just displays a random string of letters.


The other one is on frame 13 I want to have a scoreboard that shows names in one column and times in another. It can not read the variables from frame 5 either.

Am i doing something wrong? Do i have to do something special to the variables to make them carry over? Or is this simply the wrong way to carry variables between frames?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Guys (And Gals)!
Kyle.

 

[GooS]

I think that if the variables are declared in a layer that has actionscript that , ehm, tweens over all frames, the variables should carry through aswell. Gonna open flash and check.

Edit: Above works for me! Don't know if it was the answer you were looking for!

 

[kyled2012]

Thanks GooS! I did that and it worked fine.. Thought i had done that already but i must have made a mistake.

Any idea about the scoreboard?

 

[GooS]

Ok, basic example then, we have three layers, game, variables and background. All variables should be declared in first frame of variables and the layer should stretch over all frames.

There should be no keyframes in this layer, and a frame at the end of frames to stretch it out.

Now all keyframes and other frames in game will be able to set/get variables in the variables layer, so in menu you set name, in game you set score, after game you set time, at scoreboard you display them all by fetching from variables.

 

[kyled2012]

Yes that works but what about saving scores?
So that the top X scores are displayed on the high scores menu.

 

[seph ir oth]

Yes that works but what about saving scores?
So that the top X scores are displayed on the high scores menu.

Depends on what you mean by 'save'.

Do you want it saved for only when the program is open (it forgets the high scores when you close it)? Or, do you want the high score to permanently save?

If you want the latter, you need to decide whether you want the information to be server based or not in which case you need to use a database language like asp or something. Check this out for that option. Otherwise, you should probably use the flush method which is covered here.

If you want the high scores to disappear after the program closes, you can just create an array of integers that store the scores, and every time a round is played, you simply compare them to the other scores.

 

[kyled2012]

Thanks!

Thanks seph ir oth

I should have been more specific,
I meant to save the scores locally and keep them so that they didnt delete after the game has been closed. I will look into the flush method on the link you provided.

Thanks very much!

Merry christmas!
kyled2012