Re: FLASH: F5 better actionscripting - looping question

[Gregg Caines]

Well... most of your problem is in the fact that you're not using

arrays.  Your code is similar to the old Flash 4 way of doing

arrays, which is great for Flash 4, but Flash 5 has much better

array support.


You can do this:

name = new Array();

name[0] = "some name";

name[1] = "some other name";

etc, etc...


Instead of creating another array called var to hold var1 to var9, you

can just create a function to give the proper output like this:


function properoutput (inString) {

 outputval = othervar1 + inString + othervar2 + "/n";

 return outputval;

}


So anytime you want to use the var1 you had in your example, you

can just say properoutput(name[1]).  If you're going to use that

function in a loop make it a 'for' loop.  'For' loops are much more

efficient for basic incrementation.  If you really need to load the new

strings into an new array (like the var array in your example), then

use a 'for' loop for that too...


for(i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {

var[i] = properoutput(name[i]);

//or without the function call:

//var[i] = othervar1 + name[i] + othervar2 + "/n";

}



That's about all I can come up with....some of those tips will speed

up the processing, but most of them will just speed up the typing...


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

>

> I have an "improvement" question.  The following F5 actionscript works OK

> for me:

>

> var1 = otherVar1+name1+otherVar2+newline

> var2 = otherVar1+name2+otherVar2+newline

...

> var9 = otherVar1+name9+otherVar2+newline

> combinedVars = var1+var2+var3+var4+var5+var6+var7+var8+var9;

>

> However, I know this is not the most efficient way of doing this, and

> comming from Authorware, I know this can be done with a repeat loop.  I

> just don't know how to say it in actionscript.  Would it be something

like,

>

> n=1;

> while (n<10) {

>      var(n) = otherVar1+name(n)+otherVar2+newline;

>      n++;

> }



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