ActionScript 3.0 :: Take The Value Of Event.target.name For Instance "SW5005_mc"?
Oct 29, 2009
Is it possible to take "event.target.name" value which in my case would be something like "SW5005_mc" and change that value.I use that value right now to tell another clip to gotoAndStop(event.target.name); which I have frames labeled the same as the event. target. name.I would like to take the value of event.target.name for instance "SW5005_mc" and remove the "_mc" and put a dash in between the "SW" and the "5005"to get "SW-5005" which then I would pass into a text field.
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