Flash :: Passing A String

Passing Var:string To New URLRequest
Hi,

I have a main movie on which I have two buttons that each should load a new external movie when clicked.

The code on frame one for each button is:

Code:
function onIntroClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
var language:String="english.swf"
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
english.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onIntroClick);

and

Code:
function onIntroClick2(evt:MouseEvent):void {
var language:String="french.swf"
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
french.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onIntroClick2);

on frame 20 I have the following code, which should load the external movie (either the english.swf or the french.swf) in the main movie.

The code is as follows :

Code:
var l:Loader = new Loader();
l.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, loop);
l.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, done);
l.load(new URLRequest(language));

function loop(e:ProgressEvent):void
{
var perc:Number = e.bytesLoaded / e.bytesTotal;
percent.text = Math.ceil(perc*100).toString();
}

function done(e:Event):void
{
removeChildAt(0);
percent = null;
addChild(l);
}
stop();

This doesn't work as I get an error 1120: access of undefined property language.

What am I doing wrong or what should I do to do it right ?

Thanks for your assistance.

Smalco

Passing String Into Flash
Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could help me out with some trouble I'm having. I've tried to find tutorials for this but it seems to be missing the what I'm looking for. I want to pass a string into flash from a php page. I know I have to have the string in the object. But I don't know how to write the code so flash can understand. I want to have the string value be entered into a text box. Any help would be great thanks..

Passing A String To A Function
Hi I want to pass a varible (a string) to a function when I roll over a
button. I have tried this but it does not work.

var ross:String('hello');

freshnLogo_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, oneRollover, ross);

function oneRollover(event:MouseEvent, ross):void {

trace('you passed' + ross);
}

Passing A String To An External MC
I load my external swf....

var myRequest1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("external.swf");
myLoader1.load(myRequest1);
var _content:MovieClip = MovieClip(myLoader1.content);
stage.addChild(_content);
_content.myname ="Albert";

on the first frame of the external swf

trace("hello you" + myname);

I get an error. How Do I do this?

Thanks

Passing Data With Query String
I'm trying to 'pass-through' a variable in a flash movie.

Basically I'm using flash to create a form that needs to be posted back to a server side database, using get url this is no problem.

However I want to populate the flash movie with a value that when the get url command is exectued, this value is passed back to the database.

e.g.

I have a variable called "AdvertID" it's value is "100". I know this before I play the movie, so I call the movie thus:

embed src "movie.swf?AdvertID=100" etc.

However when flash posts this data back using get url, it doesn't appear as one of the variables.

I do not want the user to see this value (however if they must I can live with it).

Do I have to declare "AdvertID" as a variable for this to work?

If I do where?

Thanks.

Passing A Filename As A Variable..is It A String?
Hey can someone help me,

I want to set a variable as a file name,

i.e variable_1 = "file_1.exe";
How should I declare it? I was declaring it as above but it was being passed as a string and wasn't being picked up by my other functions, I also tried without the inverted commas and it wasn't being picked up at all, any advise?
Cheers

Passing String Variables To Flash
I am passing variables in a url string from an asp page to my .swf file and reading the variables into text boxes within flash.

eg.
http://www.mywebpage/pageFlash.asp?...ameVar=François

As you can see, the variable I am using contains a special french character.

Now here is the problem. On some computers the variable is passed to flash with no problem at all and on other computers the same flash file is unable to read the variable. I have tried url encoding the variable to read %E7 and also have placed System.useCodePage=true; on my first line of actionscript, but neither works.

Does anyone know why the special character works on some computers and not on others? All the computers have IE 6 and are running Windows 2000.

Passing String To Target In LoadVariables
for the loadVariables function, I have a file to be loaded. however as for the target, i have no definate target. but a string of the target will be produced in the code. but it doesnt seems to work when i put the string of the target address to the target parameter of loadVariables. how can i get it work?
thanks

[CS3] Passing Variables From Query String
Hi there,

i'm trying to pass a variable from a web page to a flash file. The flash file has a dynamic text box with the var value set to formError.

In the webpage i have the following code:

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("flash/index_030308.swf?t=150", "mymovie", "938", "305", "8", "#FFFFFF");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain");
so.addParam("quality", "high");
so.addVariable("formError", "<%=request.QueryString("formError")%>");
</script>

to test i am typing in the address bar default.asp?formError=woteva, hoping to see "woteva" displayed in my dynamic text box in the flash file, but this isn't the case. Where am i going wrong?

Passing A Variable To Flash Via Url String
I understand how to get a variable into flash when it's hard coded into the html using Flashvars or this is how I do it with SWFObject:
where variable: location=subdirectory

Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[

var so = new SWFObject("featuredviewer.swf", "featuredviewer", "620", "480", "8", "#fff");
so.addVariable("location", "subdirectory");
so.write("logo");

// ]]>
</script>
What I don't understand and can't find is how to do this...
I have an html file with an swf in it. Different buttons in the file open a popup window via javascript. I want to pass a variable to the swf in the pop up window, possibly like this:

Code:
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:Launch('featuredviewer.html?position=one')");
}
But how do you extract the variable position=one out of the url and get it into flash?

Passing Class Names As A String...
Hi People,
I need to pass a class name to a function acting as a class 'instancer' (bad english, sorry)

I've tried [] and eval but no result...

one of wrong cases I've tried:

Code:
showModule = function(moduleClass:String){
var module = new eval(moduleClass)(_level0.module_container);
}
thanks

Passing Variable On Querry String To PHP
I'm building a upload app and need to send my php script some info when I call my upload script. I've established a var ID.

Can someone confirm if my syntax is correct.

ActionScript Code:
fileRef.upload("upload.php?userid='+ID+'");

Thanks!

Passing A Variable To A Query String
I am trying to create a form in Flash that passes variables to a query string. Simple enough, but when my variables have an underscore (eg variable_one) Flash coverts the underscore to “%5F”. I noticed that it seems to convert all non letter or number characters to something else. Unfortunately I don’t have the option to change the names of the variables I am passing.

This is the code:

submit.onRelease = function () {
getURL ("http://www.actionscript.org","", "GET");
};

Has anyone encountered this? Help Please!

Passing String Info Via MovieClip?
Hello.

I'll try to explain what I'm looking for, I haven't started coding yet so have nothing to show.

I have 190 movieclips which display various types of information. When a user clicks on a movieclip, it has to tween larger but also send a string to a method. I'll probably e.currentTarget to use one function which contains a tween and I wondered if there was a quick way to pass string info in a similar way?

So, each movieclip has it's own value which can be passed to a method which will use that value. The only way I can think of so far is to have 190 functions which send the string data to the appropriate place. I'm trying to avoid that if I can.

Thank you.

Passing A Query String To Flash
Here's the need:

I'm going to be making a gallery of "thumbnails" which are all a flash file dynamically loading new content in each. So a single html page will house up to 48 copies of that same swf loading a new picture in each.

There has to be a way to load a flash file with a query at the end, right (in the html source code)? Like filename.swf?id=123&thispage=123 right? If so, how do I access those variables passed to flash?

My idea was to write my standard loop (in PHP) posting a new swf in each iteration but change the query string with each so that I can load the new content.

MX : Passing Variables To Command String
I'm trying to design an interface that to simplify the construction of a string. Here's an example: My output (using the getURL command) needs to be in the form of:

http://fakesite.com:8080/java/submit...ng2=y&thing3=z

I'm able to define variables for x, y, and z, however I am unable to figure out how to substitute the defined values for those variables into the string when it is time to send it.

I may not be being very clear here, but does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Jeff Kirsch

Passing Variables Via Query String
i am trying to load different xml that get generated through .net when I am trying to pass varibels i am getting undefined. Can someone give me a heads up on what i might be doing wrong. from what I have read and learned I can pull via-

Code:
xmlData.load("/family/galleryimage.xml.aspx?pid=" + _root.loaderInfo.parameters.pid.toString());

Then I am defining pid in within the object class.

Code:
<param name="pid" value='<% =Request.QueryString["pid"] %>'>
However I am getting undefined. Any help is much appreciated, thanks.
MT

Trouble Passing String Var Into Function
im making a function that limmits text to a specified number...
only problem is i cant seem to pass in the text var that contains the text
any help would be awesome.
thanks in advance

ActionScript Code:
var textF1:String = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam neque purus, aliquam sed, sagittis tincidunt, adipiscing ac, urna. Ut libero urna, nonummy sodalesxxx";function TrimText(limmit:Number, area, textVar) { var lengthF1:Number = [textVar].length; trace(lengthF1); var charLimmit:Number = limmit; for (var i:Number = 0; i<=charLimmit; i++) { trace(i); if (i == 0) { textcut = [textVar].charAt(i); } else { textcut += [textVar].charAt(i); trace(textcut); if (i == charLimmit && lengthF1>=charLimmit) { textcut += "..."; _root[area].text = textcut; trace(area); } else { _root[area].text = textcut; } } }}TrimText(160,"texttest",textF1);

Passing Query String From Address Bar URL Into Swf
Hi All,

Let me preface this by saying that I'm primarily a design/animation/marketing guy so this could be a stupid question with an obvious answer. However, I have been scouring the web for two days now and have yet to find any posts/tutorials which offer a solution.

Here's the challenge:

I have a flash movie that movie is contained within the same included file on every page of a site. I need some way of telling the flash which pages it's on so it can display the appropriate XML feed. Since each of my pages has a query string in the URL (i.e. thesite.com?page=1) I imagine the best way to do this is to somehow send the string into the flash movie. Once it's inside the movie I'll write a function that pairs the each string with it's corresponding XML feed (btw, if anyone has an a similar script they can post it would be a huge help to me!).

Note that because the movie is part of an include that is on ever page its parameters (such as EMBED tags) cannot be changed either.

The only solution outside of directly passing the query string from the page URL (as it appears in the address bar) to the flash would be to create some sort of Javascript in the HTML that captures the query string and then sends it along.

If anyone can help me out with this it would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thank you in advance!

Passing Variable From An HTML Query String
HELP?

I am using the javascript

window.document.smoothie.SetVariable("_root.texty" , query);

in an HTML page, to pass the value in 'query' to a dynamic text box, 'texty' on the main timeline of my Flash movie.

The passing of the variable works, and can be seen on any one of these 3 pages:

http://www.runspotrun.com/test/page2.html?chewbacca
http://www.runspotrun.com/test/page2.html?hansolo
http://www.runspotrun.com/test/page2.html?obiwan

If the value of query is 'chewbacca' then what loads on the page is different than if the value is 'hansolo' and so on...

The passing of this variable works, EXCEPT - one needs to RELOAD the page to see it. When the movie/page first loads, the value doesn't appear. If it is reloaded, then the value appears. A following visit to the same page, even passing a different variable will work fine also. It's just that very first visit, the first time the movie is opened on a particular browser.

After many hours of trying to figure this out, I am at a loss. Can anyone help me with this please?

ThankS!
mark

Passing Special Characters On A Query String
Hi,

I have a project that requires to send a string variable to a swf movie using a query string in html like this:

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE= "movie.swf?text=Vous êtes dans le Hall d'entrée.">

My problem is:
this text is read from a database using jsp and has special characters like é, è, à and other french specific ch.

I've seen the posts for external txt files using unicode, tried to save the html file as unicode, but still no results. My text field doesn't look right.

Can anyone help me? I ran out of solutions.
Thank you.

Passing Query String Var Into Flash Only Works Sometimes...?
I'm trying to pass a variable into Flash from a query string, and for the most part it works great.

flashmovie.swf?page=home

On any page other than the home page, the Flash movie should skip it's build animation and go right to a resting state. Code:

if (page != "home") {
gotoAndPlay("navigation");
} else {
play();
}

This only works as intended after visiting several pages. Lets say I arrive on the home page and the movie plays through all it's animations. Fine, great. Now I go to any other page and it should skip right to the 'navigation' keyframe - right? Wrong, the movie skips ahead only about 40 frames, and plays out the rest of the intro. All other pages afterward behave correctly as coded. And revisiting that second page also now behaves normally.

What's the deal?

Passing Multiple Variables In GetURL String
Is it possible to pass multiple variables in a getURL string?

I can do this getURL("javascript:doLMSSetValue('cmi.interactions .0.student_response','"+group1.getValue()+"')

where group1.getValue()is the variable. But what what I want to do is pass something like this

var qadata = doLMSSetValue('cmi.interactions.0.id', '1');
doLMSSetValue('cmi.interactions.0.type', 'choice');

and have tried

getURL("javascript:"+qadata+); and other varieties but can't quite get that to work.

Thanks.

Passing Accented Letters Through Query String
I want to pass the variable="tést" through the query in html,
so I urlencode it and do this:

myswf?var=t%E9st

..but all I get on the flash side is a string two letters long, the second letter beeing not readable! I'm unescaping it and still nothing...
Am I missing something or flash does not accept 'ALL' urlencoded characters...

I'am just very surprised to see this....

pitu

String Parsing / Character Counting / Value Passing
hi, everyone -- i DESPERATELY need help with what is for me a pretty esoteric AS 3 task. i need to:

1.) get a string (for context purposes, a URL) from an input field;
2.) count the amount of times a certain character shows up in that string (in my case, and as above, a backslash or "/") ;
3.) after counting a specific number of instances of a character in the string -- say 4 "/"s -- the string is split up at that exact spot and the first half is sent to one parameter (say, nc.connect) + a dynamic text field, and the second half is sent to another parameter (say, ns.play) + a second dynamic text field.

i'm no coding expert under the best of circumstances, but AS 3 seems to be even tougher for me, more strongly typed, and less likely to respond to deprecated kinds of events like onRelease for buttons. i'm sure some for loop "where i<4, i++" or its like would be invoked, but trying to count the amount of characters and populate different kinds of parameters is pretty well beyond me.

thanks for any help you all might be able to provide!

A Not So Average Problem, When Passing String To Function
Hi guys! Long time reader, first time poster.

And yes i have done a search.

I'm encountering a rather decent problem with my assignment. The idea is that we have to search amazon.com and display titles etc etc.

I've accessed amazon, got my results and now am trying to strip the xml tags from the results. I've written a budget looking function (i am bo NO means an actionscript/pogramming god, so please bear with me) which takes the result of the node, finds the spot in the strong where the xml occurrs (specifically the <> brackets) and then grabs the substring in the relevant spot.

The problem (I think) is that i can't access my function. I've got my little:

operateString = xmlTrim(operateString);
^^variable^^ = ^^^ function ^^^string passed to it

and there's a couple of traces inside it, but they don't trace and the return of the function (if there really is one) is undefined.

I've uploaded the relevant code blocks to here. This is the entire .as file if required.

I have absolutely no idea what's going wrong. The only thing I can think is that maybe there's a type casting problem? Somehow?

Any help at all would be appreciated guys I should have asked this days ago, but thought that chat sites would offer a immediate solution. unfortuantely not.

Thanks for your time

Josh

Passing Variable To FLVPlayback Via Query String
This seems very easy but I am stuck here....
Here's the html that I'm trying to pass the flv name to the FLV component

Attach Code

In the html
<param name="movie" value="/proxy/MC-video-component.1.swf?flvName=vod/q1_2009_mkt_story">

and in AS i have an instance of the FLVPlayback component on the stage

var flvName;

myFLVPlayback.source = "rtmp://myFMSserver.org/" + flvName +".flv";

Any help?

Passing Variables From HTML To Flash Using Query String
Am using query strings in HTML to pass variables to my flash movie so I can use the same movie but different title on each page. See www.gogojuicebars.com

Works fine when I test locally, but when uploaded the movie seems to display only the first "welcome" title on each page until you have clicked all of them. Then it works correctly???? Is almost like the flash movie is loading before the varaibles can be passed, but how can this be??

Any ideas on how to fix this?

MX04 - Simple Function - Passing Through A String Argument
Hi there.

I have a function that is try to pass through a url to a pop up menu using Javasccript. The pop up works fine but i cant get the url parameter to pass through.

On the root of the movieclip i have:

Code:
function popUp(url : String){
var fullURL = url;
getURL("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('fullURL','myWindow','width=300,height=200,left=400,top=200,toolbar=No,location=No,scrollbars=No,status=No,resizable=No,fullscreen=No'); NewWindow.focus(); void(0);");
}
Then on the button i have:

Code:
on (release) {
popUp("www.msurgery.co.uk/contract.php");
}
Thanks for your time.

Trouble Loading A Text File When Passing The Variable In The URL String
I am trying to load variables into Flash from a text file. I pass the name of the text file as a variable in the URL string and then use that variable in the loadVariables command to pull in the text file. It works fine locally but is unreliable up on the server.

I seem to have got past this problem by moving the action to frame 2 from frame 1.

Has anyone else experienced problems with this and has found a better resolution?

Error 2101: The String Passed To UrlVariables.decode() Must Be Url-encoded Query String
I am trying to make a flash contact form which will submit the firstname, lastname, email and comments to an asp.net page.

I am have having the following error:

Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs

I am using the following action script code as pasted below. This action script is communicating with an asp.net file to send the email out. In the end it responds back with response=passed or failed.

I have already spent around 3 hours figuring it out.. and looking through the internet for resolution but no luck. Any help will be appreciated.

stop();
submit_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, submit);

function submit(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
variables.firstname = firstname_txt.text;
variables.lastname = lastname_txt.text;
variables.email = email_txt.text;
variables.comments2 = comments_txt.text;

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(â€emailacount.aspxâ€);
req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
req.data = variables;

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, sent);
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, error);
loader.load(req);

status_txt.text = â€œSendingâ€¦â€;

}

function sent(e:Event):void
{
status_txt.text = â€œYour email has been sent.â€;
firstname_txt.text = â€œâ€;
lastname_txt.text = â€œâ€;
email_txt.text = â€œâ€;
comments_txt.text = â€œâ€;
}

function error(e:IOErrorEvent):void
{
status_txt.text = â€œThere was an error. Please try again later.â€;
}

and the following asp.net code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net.Mail" %>
<script language="VB" runat="server">
Sub Page_Load(Sender As Object, E As EventArgs)
Try
Dim fromEmailAddress = "paul@lancierinc.com"
Dim toEmailAddress = "rizwandar@gmail.com"

Dim firstName = Request.QueryString("firstname_txt")
Dim lastName = Request.QueryString("lastname_txt")
Dim comments = Request.QueryString("comments_txt")
Dim userEmail = Request.QueryString("email_txt")

'create the mail message
Dim mail As New MailMessage()

'set the addresses
mail.From = New MailAddress(fromEmailAddress)
mail.To.Add(toEmailAddress)

'set the content
mail.Subject = "Email from" & firstName & " " & lastName
mail.IsBodyHtml = True
Dim strBody As String = "<b>Email from</b>" & " " & firstName & " " & lastName & "<br><b>Email Address:</b> " & userEmail & "<br><b>Comments:</b> " & comments
mail.Body = strBody

'send the message
Dim smtp As New SmtpClient("mail.lancierinc.com")
smtp.Send(mail)
Dim urltoencodestring2 = "response=passed&err=0"
'Response.Write(urltoencodestring2)

Catch smtpEx As SmtpException
'A problem occurred when sending the email message
'ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "OhCrap", String.Format("alert('There was a problem in sending the email: {0}');", smtpEx.Message.Replace("'", "'")), True)
Response.Write(smtpEx.Message)
Dim urltoencodestring = "response=failed&err=1"
'Response.Write(urltoencodestring)

Catch generalEx As Exception
'Some other problem occurred
'ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "OhCrap", String.Format("alert('There was a general problem: {0}');", generalEx.Message.Replace("'", "'")), True)
Dim urltoencodestring3 = "response=failed&err=1"
'Response.Write(urltoencodestring3)
End Try
End Sub
</script>

String Passed To URLVariables.decode() Must Be A URL-encoded Query String...
I really don't understand why this won't work? I've made a test which sends some POST data to a script on my page which works fine. But why does not this work?

Code:
var mapsize = _cmap.fieldx.toString(16) + _cmap.fieldy.toString(16);
var names = "Zomis_AI6";
var description = "descr";
var result = "gameresult";
var upldata: String = "mapsize="+mapsize+"&names="+names+"&description="+description+"&result="+result;
trace(upldata);
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables(upldata);
var request2:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
request2.url = "http://www.zomis.net/record.php";
request2.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
request2.data = variables;
var loader2:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader2.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader2.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, uploadcomplete);
try {
loader2.load(request2);
trace("Loaded");
}
catch (error:Error) {
trace("Unable to load URL");
}
Tracing gets:

Code:
mapsize=1010&names=Zomis_AI6&description=descr&result=gameresult
Loaded
Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::URLVariables/decode()
at flash.net::URLVariables$iinit()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()

Randomize String And Create Textfields With String Txts
Hi,
is there some easy method to randomize elements of an array (to randomize index numbers) and create textfields with name of these elements ?
I had no problem making a photo gallery with strings but now I have to do a menu , with spacing (there should be same space between all the words of an array generated textfields)...How can this be accomplished ?Thanx in advance, Meerah

Convert Multiline String To A One Line String With RegExp
better get my own thread for that

How can I convert a multiline String to a one line String?
EX:

PHP Code:

Testing is always full of man made bugs.
<a href="http://www.betterthannothing.com" title="betterthannothing" target="_blank">
<font color="#22229C">Believe</font>
</a>
me when times comes that you have to
<a href="http://www.vreate.com" target="_blank">create</a>
useless stuff to test some other useless stuff to have
<a href="http://www.vreate.com">some</a>
real results.. its a pain.
<img src="http://www.markval.com/deerPack.jpg" height="484" width="352"/>
<em>Got to try that stuff to eventually love it one day.</em>

and should result in

Code:
Testing is always full of man made bugs.<a href="http://www.betterthannothing.com" title="betterthannothing" target="_blank"> <font color="#22229C">Believe</font></a>me when times comes that you have to<a href="http://www.vreate.com" target="_blank">create</a>useless stuff to test some other useless stuff to have<a href="http://www.vreate.com">some</a>real results.. its a pain.<img src="http://www.markval.com/deerPack.jpg" height="484" width="352"/><em>Got to try that stuff to eventually love it one day.</em>

I think it have to play with the ^ (caret) and m (multiline) ... just need to put the puzzle together.

String.as (Fishing Line Or Kite String)
Hello everyone. After reading the article on Glen Rhodes (Proud Canadian) I was wondering exactly how to insert the string.as file. I have been having huuuuuuge speed issues with my code. My file sizes are quite small (40 - 60 k)but they are very sluggish.

Thank you......
Please help

http://www.moodvibe.com

Trouble With String.indexOf And String.lastIndexOf
Hi,

I have an input text field used for time. I'm trying to set it up so the user has to enter a valid time into the box.

I set the box to be only 5 characters in length and to only use numbers and the ":" character.

I thought this code would insure there wouldn't be two ":" characters and the ":" would be at lease one character from the begining and at least two from the end.

But the if you enter 2:321 it comes back as a valid time.

Thanks in advance,
thurston

Code:
if(string.indexOf(":", 1) == string.lastIndexOf(":", string.length-3) ){
trace("Valid Time");
}else{
trace("Invalid Time!!!");
}

Changing A String Name In A Loop / Concatonating String Name?
Hey all,

Does anybody know of a way to change a string name as a loop proceeds?

This is the main piece of code that I wish to loop with i incrementing, so that whilst i=0 then:

_root.barARed._visible=barRed[i];
_root.barARed._width=barLength[i];
_root.barAYellow._visible=barYellow[i];
_root.barAYellow._width=barLength[i];
_root.barAGreen._visible=barGreen[i];
_root.barAGreen._width=barLength[i];
infoA.text=info[i];

and i=2 then:

_root.barBRed._visible=barRed[i];
_root.barBRed._width=barLength[i];
_root.barBYellow._visible=barYellow[i];
_root.barBYellow._width=barLength[i];
_root.barBGreen._visible=barGreen[i];
_root.barBGreen._width=barLength[i];
infoB.text=info[i];

and so on...I would use _root.barRedInstanceName[i]._visible=barRed[i]; but I can't give the movie clip (the bar) an instance name such as redBar[1], redBar[2] etc. (system reserved I'm told)

I guess what I am trying to ask in a roundabout way: is how do you concatonate the name, rather than the contents of a string?

Hope you'll forgive me if this is something really simple that I am overlooking, but I only have a very short experience of flash.

Thanks

Al

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