Hi all,

Since I am going to be working on a Flash site in the near future, I need to know a critical piece of information. Is it possible to set a password for certain scenes in a Flash movie? If so, how do I accomplish this. Can it be done with Actionscript? The reason I'm asking this is because I'd like for only certain people to be able to view the page if they enter the password. Can this be done without using ASP?

Thanks in advance,



Ben Horne
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Welcome to the New Age

you could set it up as such. in your first scene you would be an input field with a submit button. Have a frame that could perform a comparison function
If inputField = Password
     go to this scene
ELSE
    go back to previous scene

If you wanted a few passwords you could use and Else If to create a few passwords.

I only want one password to be used. I can't have multiple passwords in use on the same scene. Also, I believe you have to use an on release function for the button in order for the password protection to actually work. How should this be set up in Actionscript?

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student
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Ben
I have posted what I believe it is your looking for at
http://www.eclecticpixel.com/scripts
I was in ASP mode when I first thought about what you wanted, but you were correct that it can be done in the one frame which is what this is. You actually could have more passwords to this, you would have to put your passwords in an array and have the verify function loop thru it

Thanks
Mike Moore

Mike,

Thanks a bunch. I owe you one. I'll get a look at it when I get around to it (possibly sometime over the weekend)

Ben Horne
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Hi Mike,

I got a chance to look at the FLA file over the weekend and I noticed some things that I would like to do differently. Since this is going to be a full-fledged Flash site, I'd like to have a scene in the movie where the Password form resides. Instead of showing the message "Password is incorrect" in the submit field, however, I would like to have the movie go to a scene that tells the visitor that they are not authorized to view the page. Of course, I would be modifying the ActionScript code to have the movie jump to that scene if they enter the incorrect password(which is what I had in mind at first).

Anyways, thanks again for providing the FLA file.

Have a good one,

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student
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http://community.webshots.com/user/valerian114

Go there. I have a lot of awesome photos that I rendered myself

"A Person Who Claims To Be A Flash Junkie Isn't Really A Flash Junkie Unless He Can Prove It"