next frame movieclips

[oliversen]

Hey

I am creating several buttons using a for loop - about 100 buttons.

for (var i: int = 0, total: int = xmlLengde; i < total; i++) {

bgmList.push(myXML..Song.songURL)

button1 = new Favorite();

button1.name = "favorite" + i;

button1.mouseChildren = false;

button1.y = button.y + (button.height - button1.height) / 2;

button1.x = button.x + button.width - 10 + button1.width / 2;

container1.addChild(button1);

}

I have an array like this:// this is traced - FavoritterID:       5,6,1,2,13,88,73.

All the buttons are movieclips that has 2 frames.

What I want to do now is make favorite5, favorite6, favorite1 and so forth go to next frame.

I have tried this and a few other things. Doesnt seem to work.

for(var ii: int =0, ii<FavoritterID.length; ii++){

button1.nextFrame();

favorite+i.nextFrame();

}

thanks

[kglad]

use array notation to coerce strings to objects:

user

for (var i: int = 0, total: int = xmlLengde; i < total; i++) {

bgmList.push(myXML..Song.songURL)

button1 = new Favorite();

button1.name = "favorite" + i;

button1.mouseChildren = false;

button1.y = button.y + (button.height - button1.height) / 2;

button1.x = button.x + button.width - 10 + button1.width / 2;

container1.addChild(button1);

}

for(var ii: int =0; ii<FavoritterID.length; ii++){

this['favorite'+ii].nextFrame();

}

[ClayUUID]

Fixing the use of "ii" as the iterator variable would also help. And the comma in the for loop instead of a semicolon.

[oliversen]

Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties. at  the line having this code: "this['favorite'+p].nextFrame();"

It didnt work, so I tried a few other things, which didnt work either.

for(var p: int =0; p<FavoritterID.length; p++){

//getChildByName("favorite" + p).nextFrame();

//container1.(this['favorite'+p]).nextFrame();

this['favorite'+p].nextFrame();

}

[oliversen]

I was thinking it might had to do with the buttons being placed inside container1. But it didnt seem to change anything.

[ClayUUID]

oliversen  wrote

I was thinking it might had to do with the buttons being placed inside container1. But it didnt seem to change anything.

this.container["favorite" + p].nextFrame();

[oliversen]

for(var p: int =0; p<FavoritterID.length; p++){

trace(FavoritterID);

trace(FavoritterID.length);

trace(p);

//this['favorite'+p].nextFrame();

this.container1['favorite'+FavoritterID

].nextFrame();

}

Result of traces:

5,6,1

3

0

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.

If I try adding a    .    after container1.

for(var p: int =0; p<FavoritterID.length; p++){

trace(FavoritterID);

trace(FavoritterID.length);

trace(p);

//this['favorite'+p].nextFrame();

this.container1.(['favorite'+FavoritterID

]).nextFrame();

}

5,6,1

3

0

I get this error: TypeError: Error #1123: Filter operator not supported on type flash.display.MovieClip.

[ClayUUID]

oliversen  wrote

If I try adding a    .    after container1.

Stop. Stop trying to fix problems by randomly shotgunning punctuation into your code. You are only going to make this work if you actually understand what you're doing.

[oliversen]

I thought I might had to use punctation when refering to a movieclip inside a container. As is common when I for instance create a eventlistener

container1.favorite22.addEventListener(...

[kglad · Accepted solution]

oops, you don't have any objects with reference favorite0, favorite1 etc.  those are all name properties.  ie, use

for(var p: int =0; p<FavoritterID.length; p++){

MovieClip(container1.getChildByName('favorite'+p)).nextFrame();

}

[oliversen]

Nice, I had just managed to use getChildByName to make it work for one of my buttons.

Thank you guys once again!

This is how it ended up being:

for(var p: int =0; p<FavoritterID.length; p++){

MovieClip(container1.getChildByName('favorite'+FavoritterID

)).nextFrame();

}

[oliversen]

I have found a way using getChildByName

[kglad]

one of your p variables is out of range.  use the trace statement to debug:

user

for(var p: int =0; p<FavoritterID.length; p++){

trace(p);

this['favorite'+p].nextFrame();

}

[oliversen]

It stops at p=0

the error occurs right after, at the this['favorite'+p].nextFrame();

trace(p) shows 0