actionscript debugging & subject lines was: Re: FLASH: RE:

[Laura Mollett]

oops, anyone who thinks I should have put a subject line on that if I was 

going to reply to it - you're right, my apologies. It really is much better

if there's some sort of understandable subject so people can sort and find

the questions/solutions they're looking for. Reposted below with the more

appropriate subject.


Sorry again,

Laura


>> That doesn't work either. I don't know why but I can't get the darn thing to

>> loop.  As soon as it reaches the frame that the loop is in it displays x as

>> 10.

> Heyya,

> Did you put a trace on "x"? trace it inside the loop if you haven't already,

> and see if you can get a better idea what's going on.

>

>> sj

>>

>> Set Variable: "x" = 2

>> Set Variable: "ypos" = GetProperty ("/dot1",_y)

>> Loop While (x < 10)

>>       Duplicate Movie Clip ("/dot1", "dot"&x, 1)

> It *might* be a problem to name the duplicate movie clip as the same name as

> the original (I don't know for sure, but you might consider naming the

> original something else). Also I believe you need a / on the new name as

> well, since you would want it to be set on the main timeline yes? (although

> I don't think that would cause the code not to loop). So you'd want

> Duplicate Movie Clip ("/dot1", "/dot"&x, 1). You might also run traces on

> "/dot1" and "dot"&x to make sure it's finding them properly.

>

>>       Set Property ("dot"&x, Y Position) = getProperty("/dot"&(x-1)) + 20

>>       Set Variable: "x" = x + 1

>> End Loop

>

> hth, some anyway

> Laura

>

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