FLASH: Get Property/Set Property with expressions

[Dave Hollinden]

HI Folks,


I have a project with a number of movie clips, each of which gets it's

properties modified by the user.  I want to keep track of the properties,

set one clip's properties equal to another one's, etc.  It would be

efficient to be able to code things like:


Set Variable: "param2" = "_x"

Set Variable: "param3" = "_y"

Set Variable: "param4" = "_xscale"

Set Variable: "param5" = "_yscale"

Set Variable: "param6" = "_rotation"



and then use these with the Get Properties function in something like this:


      Set Variable: "m" = "2"

      Loop While (m <= param_num)

            Set Variable: "new" = GetProperty (/clip1, Eval("param" & m ))

	...other statements using "new"


            Set Variable: "m" = "m+1"

      End Loop


When I try this, I get an error message saying that GetProperty expects a

Property.  Does this mean that I can't retrieve properties using

expressions, that there needs to be a separate GetProperty statement to

read each property explicitly?




Dave Hollinden

Audio Engineer

Jet City Studios, Seattle

dhollindenjetcitystudios [dot] com (mailto:dhollindenjetcitystudios [dot] com)

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