AS3 :: IDE - How To Concatenate Variable Names
Nov 24, 2007How do I concatenate variable names in AS3?Something like this:
for(var i:int=0 ; i<5 ; i++) {
var "myVar"+i:Array = new Array();
}
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Jul 19, 2006I'm trying to achieve something i thought would be extremely easy, but i can't get it to work!
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ActionScript 3.0 :: Concatenate Dynamic Variable?
Dec 23, 2009I'm starting out with AS3 and migrating some old code. I have several dynamic variables in AS2 but they are using _root which isnt available in AS3.How would I go about switching the following variable to AS3? I have at least a dozen different variables similar to this one.
Code:
for (i = 0; i < (k-1); i++) {
pivot = _root["AI"+i][i][i]; // existing AS2 code
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ActionScript 2.0 :: Concatenate A Name And Variable Number?
Nov 20, 2007I'm trying to concatenate a name and variable number. Then trace it, so answer3 should output from my loaded xml data "water". Instead all I can get to trace is the word "answer3". If I type "answer3" in the trace I get the variable im looking for. If I type [this.getCorrectAnswerNumber()] in the trace I get number 3. How do I go about concatinating the word answer and a dynamic number.
Heres my code...
Code:
trace("answer"+[this.getCorrectAnswerNumber()]);
ActionScript 3.0 :: Instance Names And Variable Names: It Goes Deeper
Mar 20, 2011I started a thread about a reference to a symbol House, in the output window, which was: House_1. A lot of people said some useful things about that. All day I've been thinking about it, and I came to the conclusion that I don't understand things, at a very basic level.
Consider:I make a movieclip which I give the Symbol name Drawer. (I don't export it for AcitonScript.)On the stage I manually place two instances of this Symbol. The first one I give the Instance Name drawer (in the properties panel). The second one I leave nameless.Now if I trace the names of both these clips, by
trace(this.getChildAt(0).name);
trace(this.getChildAt(1).name);
the output window gives me
drawer
instance2
Now I know that the so-called "instance name" which I gave in the Properties Panel (drawer) is, in reality, a variable name which Flash gives my first instance behind the scenes. And instance2 is a name that Flash gives my second instance. What exactly the nature of that name is, I do not know.My point is: both names (drawer and instance2) are the .name property of these movieclips. Otherwise I could not have traced them through asking for the .name property, in the above. Yet only the first of these two can be manipulated:
drawer.x can be set;
instance2.x can (as we know) not be set.
But...why? What is the real difference between these two kinds of names? How can they both be the .name property of their underlying movieclip, yet be of such a different nature? What IS the nature of the instance2 name? If it's a String, how come the .name property of one movieclip can be a variable name, while the .name property of another (but identical) movieclip is a String?
I've searched every bit of web page on the net I could find. But it looks as if nobody addresses this issue. We all just work with it - but it makes no bloody sense. A name property = a name property, you'd think. Whether Flash set it or I set it should not make a difference. The x property of a clip, for example, does not change in nature according to who set it - me or Flash.So, again, just to emphasize the problem: how can a property (the name property) of a movieclip change in NATURE depending on who set it? After it's been set, shouldn't the name property of a clip be of exactly the same nature as the name property of another clip?
Actionscript 3 :: Concatenate E4X Expressions If Store "half" A Path In A Variable?
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My swf contains 4 loaders (image1_loader, image2_loader etc..) which are a child of (image1_content, image2_content etc.....)
I then have 4 buttons which load an image into the loader and while doing so they define the currently active loader.
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Actionscript 3 :: Combine Multiple Variable Names Together To Target New Variable
Jan 31, 2012I'm still learning flash and actionscript 3 and i am having trouble with variable and object names. I need to be able to combine variable names together (in the same way as php can combine by doing var1.var2).
My swf contains 4 loaders (image1_loader, image2_loader etc..) which are a child of (image1_content, image2_content etc.....)
I then have 4 buttons which load an image into the loader and while doing so they define the currently active loader.
Finally i have 4 control buttons - scale up/down and rotate clockwise/anticlockwise which should only control the currently active loader (as set by the buttons above)
So my buttons as well as loading the image have the event listener:
image1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, setCurrentSelection);
image2_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, setCurrentSelection);
(and so on..)
function setCurrentSelection(e:MouseEvent):void {
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So within the rotateClockwise and rotateAntiClockwise functions i need to be able to recognise which is the currently active loader and have that number instead of the X - so if it is image1_loader - it needs to be image1_content, if 4 - image4_content... I had tried to do it as this but it doesn't like it being a string:
rotateAroundCenter((activeLoader+'_content'), 10, ptR);
ActionScript 3.0 :: Combine Multiple Variable Names Together To Target New Variable
Jan 31, 2012I'm still learning flash and actionscript 3 and i am having trouble with variable and object names. I need to be able to combine variable names together (in the same way as php can combine by doing var1.var2).My swf contains 4 loaders (image1_loader, image2_loader etc..) which are a child of (image1_content, image2_content etc.)I then have 4 buttons which load an image into the loader and while doing so they define the currently active loader.Finally i have 4 control buttons - scale up/down and rotate clockwise/anticlockwise which should only control the currently active loader (as set by the buttons above)So my buttons as well as loading the image have the event listener:[code]So within the rotateClockwise and rotate Anti Clockwise functions i need to be able to recognise which is the currently active loader and have that number instead of the X - so if it is image1_ loader - it needs to be image1_content, if 4 - image4_content.I had tried to do it as this but it doesn't like it being a string:[code]
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Jun 19, 2007I'm attempting to build a menu using a XML. I have read the tutorial on the site and I am attempt to do it in a slightly different manner. Anyways, I am trying to make dynamic variable names for my text fields. And because of the way I am doing this I found it easier to try to use XML to hold the field name. But when I try to use the name from the XML file it won't work. I can trace it and get the proper word but when used in the script it breaks.Below I want to replace 'popMenu' with the fieldName variable.
Code:
mainMenu.menu1.onRollOver = function(){
listLength = menu_xml.childNodes[0].childNodes;
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CS3 : Automatically Assign Variable Names?
Jan 27, 2010I'm working on a project using google maps. For part of it the user must enter coordinates and click a button in order to add a marker to a map. The code I have written so far allows this to be done once:
play_btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, submitdata);
function submitdata(e:Event){
var marker9:Marker = new Marker(
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As it is the only one marker can be added as it keeps getting replaced. I want to make it so that the variable name changes each time a marker is to be added.
Flash :: Use Variable Names In Actionscript 2?
Feb 19, 2011I'm looping over an array named shopData and need to use values within that array to create new variables. Inside the loop, I'm trying something like this: shop_(shopData[i].shopName).keyword = shopData[i].keyword; but I'm having trouble with the portion in () and can't seem to find the right syntax for this. Assuming shopData[i].shopName = "foo" I need to create a variable named:
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ActionScript 2.0 :: LoadVars Variable Names?
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ActionScript Code:
myVars.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
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Code:
on (release) {
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ActionScript 2.0 :: Using The # Sign In Variable Names?
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I must use a list of preset varilable names but I am getting a syntax error when I use the # sign.
ActionScript 3.0 :: Arrays And Variable Names?
Jun 15, 2009How/can you pass a array into a variables name?
var urlRequestArray:Array = ["home.txt", "contact.txt", "about.txt"]
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ActionScript 2.0 :: Incremental Variable Names?
Jul 20, 2011I'm having a few issues with incrementing numbers in variable names, was wondering if I could getThe below code is what I'm trying to implement, but I keep getting errors.
Code:
for( var i = 0; i < __values.length-1; i++)
{
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ActionScript 3.0 :: Incrementin Variable Names And FlashVars?
May 28, 2009I send flashvars to flash. Those variables are one user id variable and unknown number of corresponding friend and relation vars (friend1, friend2, relation1, relation and so on, all the items from DB).I get the of course from an object:Code:var flashVars=this.root.loaderInfo.parameters;and check how many friends did the php send to me . There is one user id variable and an even number of friends and relations so the way i check how many mates do i have is:
ActionScript 3.0 :: Dynamic Names For Class And Variable?
Sep 20, 2009How do you make a new instance of a class with a dynamic name.
var dynamicname = new dynamicname()
i try something
var this["test"]:Class = new ["Test"]()
but offcourse its not this...
I need this couse i have a librairy with SWC fonts they are only reference.. I get the font name from a CSS file and after i need to make a instance of the SWC file so the font is embedded.
ActionScript 3.0 :: Dynamically Created Variable Names?
Jan 22, 2009After some further testing, I found out that under Actionscript 3 XML (E4X) I'm unable to use dynamicaly created variable names...
The famous:
Code:
var i:number = 111
this["someVarName" + i] = "actual_value"
trace(someVarName111) // = actual_value
does not work for me with E4X lingo...
Code:
var myXML:XML
myXML = "...." //asume valid XML content here
trace(myXML.XMLData.@Memo_EN)
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ActionScript 2.0 :: Dynamic Variable Names When Out Of Root?
Jan 11, 2010This is an example of the kind of issue I'm trying to solve. Say I'm looking to set 10 text fields (text_field_1 to text_field_10) within my movie clip 'myMovieClip' to the value of i. Now if the for loop and the text fields are in the place (_root) all I would have to do is:
ActionScript Code:
for (i=1; i<10; i++)
{
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Is there a way to dynamically change the variable name of a dynamic text field? I'm thinking you should be able to have it note how many records there are, then loop until it reaches the end of the record set. So, can the variable names be dynamic so it will populate the text fields with the appropriate info?
ActionScript 2.0 :: Dynamically Assigning Variable Names?
Mar 29, 2007dynamically assign variable names from XML? For instance, if I have an XML file with a list of variable names and their respective values, can I make my Flash movie create these variables?
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May 8, 2009use a loop to create a set of variable names. The forums have figured out how to do this in AS2. This works in AS2...
PHP Code:
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Apr 22, 2010I use AS3 in Flash to read XML from an external document. I'm wondering how to tell AS3 to read and treat some of the incoming XML values as variable names. For example, in the beginning of my Actionscript, I have defined the variable:
var playerAge:Number;
and some of the incoming XML nodes look like:
<whichVariable> playerAge </whichVariable>
<whichValue> 10 </whichValue>
Now, upon reading these two nodes, I want to make a function that adds the value of the second node to the variable with the name contained in the first node. However, I can only get AS3 to read the value of the first node as a a string ("playerAge"). How do I get it to make the 'connection' between the XML node and the variable with the same name?