I'm trying to reduce repetition in my code by using a for loop with an attachMovie call. [code]So I have a bunch of clips in array that I want to attach, and I just want to use the name of the clip as the instance name, but it doesnt seem to work.
View 3 RepliesI've frequently used variable names for the target but is it impossible to do this:[code]I can't get it to work and I haven't been able to find an example.It doesn't work without the square brackets either.
View 6 RepliesI'm currently making a TicTacToe game to help build my Flash experience and I've come across an issue. I'll try and explain what everything is doing in my code thus far. I know it's a lot of code for a forum post, but I don't want to leave anything out as someone may have a really nice way to work with this.
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this will be switched to a user defined value (1 or 2), depending on which person the user decides should go first. currently it is set up for the 2nd player to go first
new _global.whosTurn();
_global.whosTurn = 2;
//this sets all cells DISABLED so, at the beginning of the game, any cell is selectable
cell1_isUsed = false;
cell2_isUsed = false;[code].....
Is it possible to, if you have an array of class names like ActionScript Code: var city01names:Array = ["pic_01", "pic_02", "pic_03" ...] make a new array which would read these names, instantiate them, and push them into a new array containing the instances of all these pictures, which I could then use for a slideshow?
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var numOfChars = 0;
setCharacters = new Array();
if (empty1.hitTest(_xmouse,_ymouse,false))
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I'm creating some mc's on the stage with the attachMovie function in a loop. I have no problem naming them like that:
foo.attachMovie("myClip", "myClip"+i, 200+i);
But I need to name them with part of an array like that:
foo.attachMovie("myClip", "myClip"+array[i]+"_mc", 200+i);
I thought that would work but I guess my synthax is wrong. How do you mix strings and arrays elements inside the () of the attachMovie?I need to get something like: myClipArrayElement1_mc for the name of the attached movies...
ok, that's some basic question but it's 4 am, I can't find the answer in the tutz and I'm starting to get a headache...I'm creating some mc's on the stage with the attachMovie function in a loop. I have no problem naming them like that:foo.attachMovie("myClip", "myClip"+i, 200+i);But I need to name them with part of an array like that:foo.attachMovie("myClip", "myClip"+array[i]+"_mc", 200+i);I thought that would work but I guess my synthax is wrong... How do you mix strings and arrays elements inside the () of the attachMovie?
View 6 RepliesFla is attached (small file, simple function)I am going thrue an array and create instances of 'inputter'.It all works fine for the last one in the array but not the first ones.Shortening the array-count still creates only the last one and not the first ones.
My function:
ActionScript Code:
doinit = function()
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is there anyway to put all movies that are attached with attachMovie in an array?
ex.
attachMovie ('ball','ball1',this.getNextHighestDepth())
then it will allso run a code that push the array with 'ball1' ? ?
i have an array of array names, but i'm having trouble with it being considered a string:
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onstageArray = ["_root.backstageArray", "_root.perfArray"];
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I am trying to attachMovie from array.
Here it goes like this:
var __reg3 = new Array ("1", "2", "3", "4");
_root.p1.attachMovie(__reg3[0] + 1, "run1", 1); -- Not working
Then I tried using string:
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I am trying to attachMovie from array.
Here it goes like this:
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var __reg3 = new Array ("1", "2", "3", "4");
_root.p1.attachMovie(__reg3[0] + 1, "run1", 1); -- Not working
Then I tried using string:
test1:String = __reg3[0] + 1
_root.p1.attachMovie('"+'test1+'"', "run1", 1); -- Not working
Then I tried this
_root.p1.attachMovie(" "" +test1+" "", "run1", 1); -- Not working
Then used this:
qt:String = '"';
_root.p1.attachMovie(qt+test1+qt, "run1", 1); -- Not working
But when I use like this, its working:
_root.p1.attachMovie("3", "run1", 1); -- working.
I've been seaching on how to get the key names of a flex Array as there is no such function in the Array class. Here is my answer that may be usueful to any of you.
View 2 RepliesI'm developing a game and the objective is to drag some objects to a container. Some objects add points, and some other subtract points. So, all the objects are in the library and have a linkage name to be called by attachMovie. I want to create an Array with all the objects that belong to container, like for example filename1 = ["obj1", "obj2", "obj3"]; etc... I have a var called count1 that defines the number of objects to appear on the Scene
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I was wondering if it was possible to create the name of a NEW array dynamically. I have tried the following with no success. Does anyone know if this can be done?
Actionscript Code://Tried and failed_global["newArray"+newArrayNumber] = new Array();//Tried and failed_this["newArray"+newArrayNumber] = new Array();//Tried and failednewVariable = _this["newArray"+newArrayNumber];newVariable = new Array();
I have an array called mclipArray with the names of movie clips stored in it as follows:
mclip0, mclip1, mclip2, mclip3....and so on until mclip99.
Later in my code I want to run a loop using "i" as a counter variable from 0 to 99 and then depending on the value of "i" add various movie clips to be inside the movie clip that corresponds to "i". For example if I want to add a movie clip called "someMovieClip" as a child of my movie clip called "mclip6" and my loop has been running and "i" is now equal to 6, how can I use "i" to reference the correct index stored in the array.
mclipArray[i].addChild(someMovieClip);
The above code doesn't work.
I want this to be sorted by first name only: "John Smith 18", "Charlotte Smith 59", "Chris Doe 26", "Tony Jordan 100", "Charlotte Roberts 17", "Imad Hanna 26", "Charlotte Smith 13"
I can get it sort sort alphabetically just by using .sort(), but it takes into account the last name as well.
I have an array that creates 7 mc clips with names.I'm trying to make each one of those peices clickable.When clicked each peice will slide over to the far left "barrier_mc" and stop.Actually not true, the one closest to the "barrier_mc" will stop at the barrier and from then on each piece will stop when it hits the one beside it (kinda like a 7 car fender-bender). This isnt the problem im trying to work through right now, although i will in the near future.
What im trying to figure out is the array that creates the mc's names them like the following "" infoBar"+i+"_mc"". What im trying to do is call that in a function so that i dont have to type in each of the 7 mc names manual I.E (infoBar0_mc) you'll see my function at the bottem in the "function pieceStop"of the pasted code.
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var list:Array = ["piece1", "piece2", "piece3", "piece4", "piece5", "piece6", "piece7"];
var startingX:Number = list_mc._x;
var bottom:Number = 950;[code].....
ok so i have this array from which i wanna fetch names of the XML files i want to load in their XML object, so i write like this but it doesn't work.[code]
View 2 RepliesI have some movieclips on stage each with an instance name like this: 101, 102,103,104.. etc.When I click one of them, it's istance name is added in an array:[code]I've got a button on stage too and I want when this button is clicked to change the Y of all the selected movieclips:[code]
View 6 RepliesI have a bunch of buttons on stage, and i want to place all of those buttons names in an array so i can assign an event listener to them easier. What i have is:
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var btnArray = new Array["btn1","btn2","btn3","etc...."];
for(var c=0; c<btnArray.length; c++)
{
btnArray[c].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, doSomething);
}
But that isnt working.
This should be simple but I can't come up with or find the answer anywhere. All I want to do is create a series of Arrays with instance names generated on the fly. I then want to reference these later. I have a "for" loop with a variable "count" that I want to add to a base name of rowArray and use the result to create an Array. I would think that it would look something like this:
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In Flash, I created a grid of 400 buttons with instance names c0 through c399.[code]...
View 2 RepliesI have just started actionscript after a long break, I am creating a crossword and each box is an 'Input Text' field. Since there are a lot of text fields, I do not want to have to create variables for each text box,I wanted to do something like this:
ActionScript Code:
var inputs:Array = new Array( "_1a", "_1b", "_1c" .. );
for( var i:int = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) {
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How do you pass instance names into arrays? I've got a bunch of movieClips of states.
They all have instance names.. alabama, arkansas, delaware, florida, georiga, etc..
I am trying to send them all to an array because I need to be able to disable the movieClips all at once and I don't want to call each one separately. I setup an array and a "for" loop, and it properly gets each value in the array:
ActionScript Code:
states = new Array(alabama, arkansas, delware, florida, georgia);
stateslength = states.length;
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I want to know "is it possible to get the files names into an array from a specific path".
The flow go like this..
When i open the swf file --> browse the specific folder -> read the file names into an array --> show the file names.
I've continued with it and have hit another hurdle. When I run the loop to load in the XML images, inside the same loop I add instances of a "thumb" movieclip onto the stage. It's just a little graphic that I want to use as thumbnail buttons. So for example, if the XML loads in 3 images, 3 instances of the "thumb" mc also load onto the stage. I currently give then unique names in the loop but that name gets overwritten each time the loop runs. How can I record each name of the instance? I'm guessing an array but how do you populate an array with a loop?
Then, I'm hoping if those names are recorded in an array, then I can reference the different thumb instances (so they can do different things with the images) and also use removeChild on them when I close the gallery and load in the next gallery. Here is my code so far,
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Why I can't set properties to instance names with Array
Code: Select all// instance names:
// a1_mc, a2_mc
var allElements = new Array("a1_mc","a2_mc");
allElements.x = 250;
alllements.y = 250;
I am making an XML multiple-gallery flash site for a client. The chunk of code I am having trouble with is populating the thumbmails section of the site with all the pictures in all the galleries. The image paths are brought in and stored in an array - one array for each gallery's image paths. The problem is that when I try to cycle through all the images to put them into movie clips (using a fore statement) I am having trouble dynamically addressing the arrays. More specifically, flash interprets them as strings, and does not evaluate the variables in them.
Code:
function images(i){
var temp:Number = eval("g"+i+"im.length");
for (var r:Number=1; r<=temp; r++){
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The argument images() takes is the gallery number (from another function). I have tried using eval() and trace to see what the problem is. Basically I can make it output the correct STRINGS, but flash will not convert the variables in the strings! So in the URL (first arg) of loadMovie it is seeing something like "g2im[3]" as a string, and not evaluating it to the value at index 4 of that array.
[code]I've tried some various things (including "this"), but basically, I need to loop through data held in arrays to create several dynamically named functions on the the fly.
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