variable help

[Candle]

I'm trying to use a password to to enable a hotsopt but I can't seem to get this to work.
Someone help me with this if you could.

password = "668944"
Do
returnvalue = InputBox("Please enter the password to enter the room.","Password")
Select Case returnvalue

Case ""
MsgBox "You have clicked Cancel"
Exit Do

Case password
MsgBox "Passwork OK. Power enabled to keycode..."
variable im trying to turn on--> password = password - 1
Exit Do

Case Else
MsgBox "Wrong passord. You will now be asked the password again."

End Select
Loop

Error I get


Error executing script.
The Scripting Engine returned the following error message:
Overflow: 'password'

[Mystery]

I think that you are confusing AM with the line
password = password - 1
because you use the term password again (or: too many times).
How about enabling a hotspot by assigning the value 1 to a variable called e.g. PasswordOk like this:

Case password
MsgBox "Password OK. Power enabled to keycode..."
PasswordOk=1
Exit Do

Or is it something else you would like to do and I misunderstood it?

[Candle]

See I made a variable called password and I have a hotspot that will be come enabled with the password variable becomes 1 .
I want to use the password input box to make the variable password 1.
Get what I'm trying to do?

[Mystery]

Yes, I think I understood you before.
So you just would have to do it like this:

Case password
MsgBox "Password OK. Power enabled to keycode..."
password=1
Exit Do

(Although I don't know if the name password would not confuse AM because you use it in the script also, but you can try. If it doesn't work, you need to change its spelling like I suggested to something like password_ok or passwordok etc. But maybe it works)

[Candle]

Ok I could just add to it like Mypassword.
I will give it a try see what happens.

[Mystery]

It should work as I used this kind of scipt a couple of times for my games, but I have never used the variable name password, I gave the variable always another name.

This is an example that I used for one of my games:

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password = "9638"
Do
returnvalue = InputBox("Please set the wavelength.","Wavelength")
Select Case returnvalue

Case ""
MsgBox "You want to quit"
Action.GoToFrame "Room1"
Exit Do

Case password
MsgBox "Wavelength set. Entry permitted."
Wavelenght=1
Action.GoToFrame "Room5a_zoom5 "
Exit Do

Case Else
MsgBox "Wrong wavelength. Try again."

End Select
Loop


[Candle]

I just put a My infront of the password and it works now. thanks for the help.

Little hint what I'm doing . heh heh

[Mystery]

Looks good
Glad you got it to work

[Candle]

Well spoke to soon as i is not working.
Anything else I can do to make this work?
Never mind did something else.

[unwired]

maybe you should try with IF and ELSE IF.


dont know if :

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Select Case returnvalue
Case password

really means :

enter this case if returnedvalue is same as the value of password ? => not really sure never used case.
(i dont even mention the fact that it can compare integers and not strings and so on..)

but i made some conditionnals with If and else If and it works fine.

[unwired]

so you solved your problem ?.

[Candle]

In a kind of round about way I got it done.
thanks for asking.