RE: FLASH: Flash 5 Beginner's Problem

[Paul Willoughby]

Mike Kelly wrote on 14 December 2000:

> I have six movie clips ("square1" - "square6") on six layers 

> in my main timeline.  In the first frame of my "actions" layer I have:

> 

> for (i=1; i<=6; i++) {

>     setProperty (("square" + i), _x, ("square"+i)._x+5);

> }

> 

> Then in the 10th frame of the "actions" layer, I ask the 

> movie to goto 1 and play.

> Unfortunately, instead of moving the clips by 5 pixels every 

> loop, this moves the whole lot off screen in one go.


I had a problem like this. It might help to use Eval. The syntax is

something like this:


for (i=1; i<=6; i++) {

     setProperty (Eval("_root.square" + i), _x,

Eval("_root.square"+i)._x+5);


Or even better, you could try it with the new array syntax which usually

works like a charm:


for (i=1; i<=6; i++) {

    _root["square" + i]._x = (_root["square" + i]._x + 5)


> Should my first bit of code be in a handler of some kind?  

> Why are the "on" and "onclipevent" handler options dimmed in 

> my action code window?


"onclipevent" can only be added to the object actions for an instance of

a movie clip, like load, enterFrame etc. "On" is for button instance

actions like press, release etc. You can't add either of these actions

to frames.


hth


paul


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