Load Variables/Targetting Movies

[Jason Nugent]

Greetings, folks,


I've been fiddling with a bit of Action Script for a project I'm working on

and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on why this bit of code

isn't working.  Essentially, the script iterates over a small list and makes

a call to a servlet that queries a database and prints out a urlencoded

string containing the values of variables each instance of a particular

movie should have.  I'm then trying to use a small FS command  call to see

if it's getting set (it's not).


Here's the code.  It's in a frame action.


for (var i = 1 ; i <= no_of_calls ; i ++)

{

    fscommand ("checkCode", "test"); // this one works fine.

    var name = "movie" + i;

    duplicateMovieClip (_root.defaultMovieClip, name, i);

 loadVariables

("http://register.thestompinggrounds.com/screensaver/get_info.php",

eval("_Level" + i + "/" + name), "GET");

 fscommand ("showMessage", eval("_Level" + i + "/" + name + ":title"));

}


Essentially, I'm a bit unclear on the reference to the loadVariables call

for whatever "name" is supposed to be.  I assumed my duplicateMovieClip

function call duplicates a movie called defaultMovieClip in _root, which is

fine, calls it movie1, movie2, etc, and stores it in an increasingly higher

level (1, 2, 3,....).  However, in the loadVariables call, I am a bit unsure

of the syntax for storing the variables returned by the servlet in the

specific level and movie.  If i was 1 and name was "movie1", would that eval

statement properly evaluate to _Level1/movie1?  Would the fscommand on the

next line properly evaluate to _Level1/movie1:title?  title is the name of

one of the variables being sent back from the servlet.


The final fscommand call should just print out the value of the title

variable stored in the movie clip, since that is the name of one of the

variables returned by the servlet.  It gets called, but the value of the

variable passed into it is empty (not even "undefined").


I've got about a decade of programming experience in a whole pile of

languages and would be very appreciative of anyone who could either point me

to a better reference than the docs that ship with flash 5.  I've had a look

at the flashbible and that was pretty helpful, but it doesn't quite cover

what I'm looking for, I think.


Anyway, thanks in advance.  Much appreciated.


Jason