FLASH: how do you dynamically rename variables?

[Christian Cook]

I am building a bulletin board in Flash 4 for a company intranet. All the

messages, headers, etc are stored in text files (with the view to hooking up

to a database). "m" is the number of messages (Loaded from txt files in

first frame), "z" is the z-index counter which starts at 1, "c" is a counter

which starts at 1 also. (I didn't combine c and z as other elements

elsewhere in the move add to z as other things are duplicated.)


The following is the script I am using to duplicate enough message boxes

according to how many messages there are and then space them out.


Loop While (/globals/:m > 0)

      Set Variable: "/globals/:m" = /globals/:m - 1

      Set Variable: "/globals/:c" = /globals/:c + 1

      Set Variable: "/globals/:z" = /globals/:z + 1

      Set Variable: "n" = "message" & /globals/:c

      Duplicate Movie Clip ("/message", n, /globals/:z)

      Begin Tell Target (n)

            Load Variables ("bulletindata3.txt", /globals/:z)

            Set Variable: ":header" = "header" & /globals/:c

      End Tell Target

      Set Property (n, Y Position) = GetProperty (n, _y) +

(/globals/:c)*(GetProperty (n, _height) + 15)

End Loop


The only bit that doesn't work is the tell traget bit. As you can see, I'm

no programmer. What i am actually trying to do is dynamiclly rename the

variable text filed "header" within movie clip "message" so that it is

called "header1" in the first duplication, "header2" in the second etc.. So

that the various message headers stored in bulletindata3.txt will load into

the correct boxes as they are dynamically created.


Any help greatly appreciated, sniggering is permitted.


Regards,

Christian Cook

Designer, ISL

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