adobe edgeaccessing variable within function

Question

im fiddeling around with Adobe Edge animation and stumbled over a strange problem im hoping someone out there could help me with.

what i want to do is, accessing variables set within functions declared on the Stage... for my basic test, im starting an timer (setInterval) within compositionReady, along with a timer counter variable to move a symbol in runtime, this all works great, next thing is to have a basic button stopping this timer event, and here's my problem, since i've set the timer to a variable within the compositionReady function i can access the bloody variable, or at least i can figure out how.

any suggestion ? :) are my thinking wrong about declaring variables?, if i set variables in the root of the Stage i can access them as globals, but this won't do well for my timer (setInterval function), coming from Actionscript 3, it's always a good idea to check if the "Stage" have init'ed properly before shooting new events :)

Here's my code copied from the Stage.. i have two symbols on the Stage textSymbol and another called RoundRect which is the button.

Symbol.bindElementAction(compId, symbolName, "document", "compositionReady", function(sym, e) {

    var timerVar = 0;
    var timer = setInterval(loop, 33);

    // OUR LOOP FUNCTION
   function loop(){
    timerVar++;
        sym.$('textSymbol').css('left', timerVar);
   }




});
//Edge binding end



Symbol.bindElementAction(compId, symbolName, "${_RoundRect}", "click", function(sym, e) {

   // SET THE SYMBOL BACK TO 0, UPDATED TO THE VARIABLE WITHIN THE TIMER EVENT
   sym.$('textSymbol').css('left', 0);


   alert(  sym.getComposition().getStage().getVariable('timerVar')  ); // return undefined


});
//Edge binding end

Answer 1

just remove the 'var' before your variable declaration so that it's global.

Answer 2

removing var in my case actually helped. i created GSAP timeline variable and wanted to pause it on mouseover. since mouseover had no access to vars declared in creationComplete, removing "var" let me pause timeline from mouseover function.