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I'm trying to get store something in the temp memory and use it to control where a jump goes.

On a button, I've got
on mouseUp
put "Entry1" into entrySelection
end mouseUp

then on another button, the jump button, I've got this:

on mouseUp
if entrySelection contains "Entry1" then go to card 1
else
if entrySelection is "Entry2" then go to card 2
else
if entrySelection is "Entry3" then go to card 3
else go to card 4
end if
end if
end mouseUp

I can get it to jump to card 4 (from all three selections), but I can't get it to actually work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated....

TIA

You somehow need to store the data so the other button can access it.

For example as custom property:
set the entrySelection of this stack to "Entry1"

Then you can do this to access the custom property:
put the entrySelection of this stack into yourVar

another way is with globals:
button 1:
global entrySelection
on mouseUp
put "Entry1" into entrySelection
end mouseUp
button 2:
on mouseUp
if entrySelection contains "Entry1" then go to card 1
else
....
end if
end mouseUp


also one if statement can only have one "else", but several "else if"'s, your code should look like this:
on mouseUp
if entrySelection contains "Entry1" then
go to card 1
else if entrySelection is "Entry2" then
go to card 2
else if entrySelection is "Entry3" then
go to card 3
else
go to card 4
end if
end mouseUp

A short addition to BvGs post:

If you want to work with globals, you need to declare them in each button.

button 1:
global entrySelection
on mouseUp
put "Entry1" into entrySelection
end mouseUp

button 2:
global entrySelection
on mouseUp
if entrySelection contains "Entry1" then go to card 1
else
....
end if
end mouseUp

All the best,

Malte

argh posted too fast again

I've succcessfully gotten the entrySelection filled... but I can't get it to work with this:

on openCard
if entrySelection contains "Submit1" then
set the layer of image "Entry1" to top
else
play videoClip "Task 1 Ask 1"
end if
end openCard

always plays the video.

TIA

try declaring the global.

global entrySelection

--rest of script here.

This is important. If the var is not declared for the script you are using it in it will be treated as a local variable which in this case is always empty.

Hope that helps,

Malte

thanks