ActionScript 2.0 :: Global Variable - Run The Movie - Keep Getting"undefined"/

Apr 21, 2004

im going through colin moock's book, "the definitive guide", and im learning about global variables. so in his lesson he says to do this:

1. create a movieclip called square, with a square inside of it.

2. in the square mc's timeline, on frame 1, place this code :

_global.day = "tuesday";

3. go back to the main timeline and on frame one put this code:

trace(day);

no according to moock, when i run the movie, it should output "tuesday", but all i keep getting is "undefined"

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