RE: FLASH: Varriable as Tell Target?

[Phillip Kerman]

If you're in F5, just use:

n=1;

clipVar=_root["prefix_"+n];

//then, instead of "tell target":

clipVar._x=100;

clipVar.gotoAndStop(2);

//etc.


F4 you need to use "eval".


Phillip


> I figured out what the problem was.  If you have the variable name set to

> 'expression' apparently it doesn't work right.  When I set them 

> to 'string'

> they worked fine.  That's all fine and dandy but what if you want the

> variable name to be determined by an expression?  Are you stuck then?

> 



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