FLASH: can i refer to mc's programatically

[Kelly, Michael]

i have 8 smaller mc's in my main mc, what i want to do is drop them away as

if by gravity. If each mc has an instance name of br1, br2, br3, ... , br8

can i do a loop that will just move each one down a little rather than doing

the code for each individually?


i.e.

this is the code to drop away one mc

Set Variable: "a" = a + 1

Set Property ("br1", X Position) = getproperty("br1",_x) - 2

Set Property ("br1", Y Position) = getproperty("br1",_y) + ((a/30) * 58)

Set Property ("br1", Alpha) = getproperty("br1",_alpha) - 5


then it goes to the next frame which has the action script


go to 1 (previous frame)


can i do something like:


Set Variable: "i" = "0"

Loop While (Eval (i) < 8)

      Set Variable: "a" = a + 1

	Set Variable: "temp" = "br"&i

      Set Property (temp, X Position) = getproperty(temp,_x) - 2

      Set Property (temp, Y Position) = getproperty(temp,_y) + ((a/30) * 58)

      Set Property (temp, Alpha) = getproperty(temp,_alpha) - 5

End Loop



i'm pretty sure this is wrong but i'm just trying to convey the idea


mick

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