Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Chapter 21: High score tables
Assuming the player is successfully logged in via either an existing cookie, the login page or
registration then the page is set to ‘highscores.html’ which contains the swf from the project
‘Examples\Chapter21\highscores.fla’. When this loads it shows a menu screen from which you
can select one of three games, ‘Car Chase’, ‘Cat Splatt’ on ‘Ninga Rhino’. This screen also contains
two buttons, ‘Set Score’ and ‘View Scores’. The message displayed also shows the user’s name
because this is known by the time the screen is displayed.
The action for the ‘Set Score’ button first works out which game is selected by getting the state
of the three radio buttons. Only one button in a radio button group can be active. This value is
used to choose the name of the game from an array of game names. The score is arbitrarily set to
a random value between 0 and 9999, then this data is sent to the ASP page ‘setscore’ via a query
string. The playback head is set to the ‘wait’ frame, where playback loops until either ‘setscore’ or
‘viewscores’ is set to ‘true’.
1 on (release){
2 var i, game=0, score;
3
4 for (i=1; i