Looping through movieclips with FOR loop ???

Hi everybody,

First time post, but you'll se a lot of me in the futur.

I need some help for something probably very easy, since I don't find any explanation for it anywhere (surely its so easy no one ever taught it would need an explanation).

I have 4 components (smart buttons) on stage, named respectively bM1, bM2, bM3 and bM4. They have a width property that can be access with bMn._w. I need to access them all in turn, reposition them depending on the stage size. I've got all the stage listener stuff working fine, absolutely no prob there.

My problem is: how can I access the movieclips? I tried:


My approach is certainly wrong, and for months now I had to work around this in other ways. But I know now enough OO programing to know it must be possible.

Please HELP ME !!! (scream of despair)

Chuck le Moche

You can place your buttons in one movieclip, and then use this:



That should do it.

Note:

The problem with your original code is in the target variable.

'bM'+i will return a string value that is just bM1, bm2, bM2. But what you are looking for is the instance name of a clip within a certain timeline. For that you will need to use associative array referencing. For example...



or if the clips are within another clips timeline



For more information on this check this out....

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showt ... adid=12082





Voetsjoebas method is probably the metter method of the two. It will loop through a timeline using a for...in loop and find your clips.

For more information on for...in loops check out this tutorial...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actions ... /forin.htm



Hope this helps

FINALLY ! ALLELUIA!!!!

I've never got through this question, and finally I got an answer.

Thank you so much!!