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Envirographics1
Inspiring
December 19, 2012
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Find and hide suffix _Level code fails on >1 MC

  • December 19, 2012
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Hi,

Flash CS5 AS3

The following code is designed to hide any MovieClips with _Level2 or _Level3 at the end of their instance name.

I now see its only working if there is one MC on stage with a suffix of _Level2 or _Level3 in its instance name.

Introduce a second MC and only the first remains hidden, all others remain visible.

What should the code be to make this work on more than one MC please ?

The MC's with instance name suffix Level2 or Level3 sit within an MC called Map_Collection as per the code.

for(var i:uint=0; i<this.numChildren; i++){ 

     var object:* = Map_Collection.getChildAt(i);

     if(String(object.name).indexOf("_Level2") > -1
  || String(object.name).indexOf("_Level3") > -1 ){

                object.visible=false;

     }

}

By a sheer fluke I thought it was working, but I now discover all the MC's that were hidden sat within another MC also with suffix _Level2 and it saw that, hid it and hid those within as well....doh !!!!

Envirographics

(P.S. code from NedMurphy...thanks)

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Correct answer Ned Murphy

"this" can not be the same object as "Map_Collection", so one of them needs to be changed, probably "this"

     for(var i:uint=0; i<MapCollection.numChildren; i++){ 

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Ned Murphy
Ned MurphyCorrect answer
Legend
December 19, 2012

"this" can not be the same object as "Map_Collection", so one of them needs to be changed, probably "this"

     for(var i:uint=0; i<MapCollection.numChildren; i++){ 

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Envirographics1Author
Inspiring
December 19, 2012

Hi and thanks.

As such then the name of the MC within which the MCs to be hidden reside needs to go in there, I overlooked that as it wasnt obvious to me in the original post which sought to hide many.

What if the MC's to be hidden reside in two different MC's ?

Envirographics

Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
December 19, 2012

You would need to run two loops, one for each container mc... you could probably do it in a similar looping fashion, though it could waste processing if there are alot more children sharing the same parent as those two mc's..

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