i need to dynamically create arrays with variable array names.
for example, something like this:
for (var n=0 ; n < nodeContainer.length ; n++) {
nodeObj = nodeContainer[n];
var name:String = nodeObj.nodeID;
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I have been working on a Flash movie that loads variable data from an external XML file and dynamically displays the item names in a menu which may then be clicked to display other dynamically-loaded content that corresponds to the menu item that was clicked. I have now come to a standstill in the project as there is something I'd like to achieve but simply cannot work out how. This is my first attempt at working with XML in Flash and one of my early attempts at using variables. What I'm trying to achieve is; once the user has viewed the item's content, they can simply click "next" and "previous" buttons to display all of the content for the next or previous items in the XML document.
I know it probably sounds simple and I'm sure some of you could achieve this in 5 minutes (!) but I can't get my head around some of the coding. I assume previousSibling and nextSibling would come into play here as well as some sort of functions which access arrays of data for the previous and next items, but I'm just not sure how to correctly put these things to use. Rather than post my code and example images of the stage up here on the forums, I've created an html page here: [URL]
How/can you pass a array into a variables name?
var urlRequestArray:Array = ["home.txt", "contact.txt", "about.txt"]
var reqNameArray:Array = new Array("homeReq","contactReq", "aboutReq")
for (var i:uint; i < buttons.length; i++){
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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 am trying to create a loop that will put a list of names from external sources into a number of Arrays .so what i did is :
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for (i=0; i<4; i++) {
this["loadVarsText"+i] = new LoadVars();
this["loadVarsText"+i].onLoad = function(success) {
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and i dont understand why it is not working, and how can i fix it?
I'm currently working on an advanced preloader and i'm creating loads of different variables etc. based on the percentage loaded. I need the variables to be named Number + percentage, so in the end I will have Number1, Number2, Number3, Number4 etc. How can I create variable names using my percentage variable? Can't seem to find anything that answers my question.
View 2 RepliesIs 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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After some further testing, I found out that under Actionscript 3 XML (E4X) I'm unable to use dynamicaly created variable names...
The famous:
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var i:number = 111
this["someVarName" + i] = "actual_value"
trace(someVarName111) // = actual_value
does not work for me with E4X lingo...
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var myXML:XML
myXML = "...." //asume valid XML content here
trace(myXML.XMLData.@Memo_EN)
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dynamically 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?
View 5 Repliesuse a loop to create a set of variable names. The forums have figured out how to do this in AS2. This works in AS2...
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for(var x=0; x<3; x++) { this["var"+x] = x;}trace(var1); // 1trace(var2); // 2
I am trying to generate variable names dynamically to get the X coordinate for many MovieClips on my stage.
This sort of works:
stop();
var End_X_mcArm01_Dot0:Array = [];
for (var Four_counter:int=1; Four_counter<=1; Four_counter++)
{
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It stores the X coordinate in the variable End_X_mcArm01_Dot0[Four_counter] which is great. But I want to store these values for use later in my FLA.
If you turn the comment off on the second trace it errors although it appears to have created a variable called "End_X_mcArm01_Dot01".
It seems that under Actionscript 3 XML (E4X) I'm unable to use dynamicaly created variable names...
this is ok:
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var i:number = 111
this["someVarName" + i] = "actual_value"
trace(someVarName111) // = actual_value
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What I am trying to do is create an array of 12 out of an unknown number of thumbnails (there are 23 at the moment though this will change).So basically first 12 in array1, second 12 in array2 an so on until all thumbnails are in an array. So I need to create each array using a dynamic name, in this case 'pagearray' I.E pagearray1, pagearray2, pagearray3.
So here is the code I am trying though I have only managed to get the code to create the one array so far. The last one. This code is within a for loop that iterates through all the thumbnails.[code]...
I always seem to have problems when there are square brackets involved in naming things
What I am trying to do is dynamically name an array. I have been trying to do it like this:
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var myI:Number = 1;
var ["tmpAr"+myI]:Array = new Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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How to dynamically create buttons and assign them names to use later on in the code.? For example:
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If(a==3) {
create three buttons:
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And then assign some functions for these buttons - like:
ActionScript Code:
but1.addEventListener.....
I am trying to use a for loop, to place 5 instances of the same movieclip on the stage. In the loop I used .name to give each movieclip a unique instance name. But when I try to reference one of those instance names in an event listener I get an error. [code]...
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to create one or several instances of a movieclip from the library with variable names
my1_mc
my2 _mc
.........
my5_mc
so that I can make a function that will use the name of any of these movieclips.
I need to make a loop that can create (and use) incremented variable names. Basically I need to dynamically create a certain number of sprites and datagrids then I need to add these dynamically created datagrids and sprites to the stage. So the static code (which works, but I think is NOT the right way to go) would look something like this (I'm leaving out a bunch of stuff but this should give you the right idea):
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But I can't figure out the syntax and how to make it work... This MUST be possible! My knowledge is pretty thin in actionscript,
I have an array of movie clips (representing band members) which have various properties, among them them a property which tells where the band member went to after they left their current band. For those who formed a new group, I want to create an array. Within that array, I want to group all the ones that left for the same group into secondary arrays. So, if you had five band members and 2 of them left for group X and 3 left for group Y. What's the best way to do this? This is, roughly, my code:
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Alternatively I suppose if I could do without a multidimensional array and just loop through all the members and say - for those members whose group is the same, perform this function, with the name of that same group passed as the parameter for the function. I guess the trouble I'm having is identifying who's the same.
I've created a photo gallery that dynamically loads images into a movieclip entitled 'gallery'. Right now the images are listed in an array. is it possible to make an Array of Arrays so that I could load different Arrays for different image galleries? Is this somewhat how it would work? Lets say I were to switch to a section entitled 'landscapes' which we will pretend is the array "var a:Array = new Array();" for now.
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I have to create a function that creates an array of arrays. I have to be able to add elements to the array, delete elements and extract elements? the elements will be arrays. How to I do that, or it is possible?
View 8 RepliesI am trying to loop through a list of images and then add them to list box with a itemRenderer
public function createDataProvider():ArrayList
{
var a:Array = new Array();
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Actionscript Code:
<root><node><child><grandChild></grandChild></child></node></root>
Actionscript Code:
Arr[0]=rootArr[0][0]=nodeArr[0][0][0]=childArr[0][0][0][0]=grandChild
Help needed to create Multidimensional Array from Recursive XML.
All I need create Array inside an Array dynamically from an unknown XML tree.
i have sprites in the library with linkages in them.. how would i create new instances of them if they are stored inside an array?
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I 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?
Alright so lets say I have a number of movieclips or text fields or something with instance names test1, test2, test3 and so forth. Now say I want to fill these text fields with text that I have in an array and I want to do this with a loop, how do I do this? What I'm really asking is if there is a way to use a variable in an instance name if you catch my drift.
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I am running into some trouble adding an array into another array to create a multi-dimensional array.The code appears as below:
var slideDataArray:Array = new Array();
var slideShowDataArray:Array = new Array();
slideDataArray[0] = xmlData.SlideShowParameters.SlideShowImagesDirectory;[code]........
I am looking for a means of placing the slideDataArray into a 'slot' or value of slideShowDataArray so that I can in the end pass the slideShowDataArray as a parameter to another function.As of now, the last slideDataArray appears 11 times (the loop runs 11 times) in slideShowDataArray and the way the code is written the slideDataArray is unique every iteration of the loop.
I have a glossary that I am trying to build. Each letter is in an XML, I want to create an Array to store letter "A", then dynamically create a "B" array and so on. this is what I have so far:
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var iTempNum = 0;
var iTermTotal;
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I have a delimited string variable that I split into an array.......
What I would like to do is create an xml playlist from that array....
an example xml doc I would like to have as an end result is this:
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<playlist>
<song>
<name>Some Song.mp3</name>
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variable "myFolder" and "savetofile" are defined earlier within another function, and this function is called back to the first function which establishes the myFolder variable.....oh yea, and fileList is the delimited string variable
the second set of code produces an xml doc, but only populates with <playlist />
I have a movieclip (listBtn) defined in my document class and need to use it in my view class to dynamically create multiple instances of it in a loop. For some reason I'm getting 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method listBtn but can't figure out why since the listBtn is defined as you can see in the view class [code]...
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