ActionScript 2.0 :: Calling Clips Dynamically?
Jan 12, 2009
I have done a bit of searching for this and have come up short. I have seen a few others post this question but never seen an answer... So here I am hoping I can find it here!Ok, so my problem is that I need to call MC's from the library dynamically depending on a number of previous user chosen options... and the names are all fairly similar but with a number or word difference...So here is my problem...I need to be able to call a clip such as the following
ActionScript Code:
var1+"mc_name"+var2+"mc_name"
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