setInterval and attachMovie

Question

I'm using setInterval to attach a variable number of movies.
When I input the code below, the call to the function works by
itself and within set interval, but the trace gives me:

_level0.blocksHolder.randomNumberDisplay
undefined
undefined
undefined

with undefined produced the correct number of times depending
on the variable: zerothPos

The block movie clip appears once correctly when the function
is called directly, but I don't want to call the function directly
set I want the blocks to show up one after another instead of all
at once.

I've tried this in both MX Flash 2004 and Flash 8 with the
same results. Any advice would be appreciated.

Attached Code:

blemmo · Accepted Answer

Hi,looks like a scope issue. Try the 2nd setInterval function,where you can pass the scope of the interval:intervalID = setInterval(this,"addUnitBlocks",1000);There's an issue with the attachMovie call: all attachedclips will get the instance name "units", so each new clip shouldreplace the clip attached before, resulting in only 1 clip on stageafter the execution. There should be a counting var in the names,e.g.this.attachMovie("block","units"+blcCnt,this.getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:20*blcCnt, _y:530});cheers,blemmo

laura_shears · Answer

Oh, thank you so much. Your suggestion worked!

In this case having all of the clips have the same name is not a problem because I am not having the user do anything with them after they are displayed. They all get deleted at the same time anyways.

I have used your naming scheme in many other cases when I do need the user to drag clips indepently.

The syntax you gave me for the setInterval is what I needed. Thanks for your quick response.

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