set the alpha of all MCs with specific name

thanks a lot Ned

for me it didnt work
the original version
I work with cs3,as2

i found out why
cause i have 2 mc that belongs to flash
and it caused the function to be endless
i added an if and it is working fine
if (property != "reserved" && property != "focusManager") {
you version that is lookink for a specific name
doent fine that two mc that cause the problem

its good for my example but the bgTitle is sometimes nested deep inside a mc and it can be also on the main timeline (_root)

i found this few lines of code that suppose to do the job, but they dont

function findClips (myClip, indentSpaces) {
// Use spaces to indent the child clips on each successive tier
var indent = " ";
for (var i = 0; i < indentSpaces; i++) {
indent += " ";
}
for (var property in myClip) {
// Check if the current property of myClip is a movie clip
if (typeof myClip[property] == "movieclip") {
trace(indent + myClip[property]._name);
// Check if this clip is parent to any other clips
findClips(myClip[property], indentSpaces + 4);
}
}
}
findClips (_root, 0); // Find all clip instances descended from main timeline

i took if from
http://oreilly.com/catalog/actscript/chapter/ch13.html
exaple 13-3

Well, if you want to loop thru all the movies, then you need to have their instances names stored in an array so that you can loop thru that array in targeting them.

var mc_Names = new Array("msgbox","basket",....);

for(z=0; z<mc_Names.length; z++){

this[mc_Names].bgTitle._alpha = 50;

}

they are instances of a mc but they are not on the same time line.
i have a mc named msgbox and inside it a mc named bgTitle, and i have also a mc that is named basket and inside it a mc named bgTitle,
there are 2 mcs that are instances of the same mc but have diffrent path
(actually i have much more than 2)

Okay, what problem are you having? In case... if you gave them all the same instance name, you can't change them all.