ActionScript 2.0 :: Dynamically Assign Instance Names To Items Already On Stage?
Oct 6, 2009
What I'm trying to do is dynamically assign instance names to movie clips placed on the stage based on their position on the stage. Say if one had an _x value of 1, i would want to assign that clip the instance name of "clip1" and if another had the _x value of 599, I would want to assign that clip the instance name of "clip599". Logically, I would think it would work like this (placed on each individual movie clip):
ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (load) {[code].....
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