Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Glen Pike

Erm, I think you might want to try

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text

Not sure.

Bill Pelon wrote:

Hello,

I'm having problems figuring out how to grab an array value and use 
that when targeting.


This is my fucntion below.  What I am wanting to do is take the 
[i]value and be able to use that when trying to write to my textfields


 


function ExpandData(turbo){

var turboItem = turbo.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i  turboItem.length; i++){
 but = eval(but+i);
 var turbo = turboItem[i];

 _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.txtField+i.text = turbo.attributes.name;

 }

}
/// 



Thanks,
Bill


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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Pelon

Seems to jumble me up a bit, I get this error.

Expected a field name after '.' operator.
  _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField+i].text = turbo.attributes.name;

thanks though...



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Erm, I think you might want to try

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text

Not sure.

Bill Pelon wrote:

Hello,

I'm having problems figuring out how to grab an array value and use that 
when targeting.


This is my fucntion below.  What I am wanting to do is take the [i]value 
and be able to use that when trying to write to my textfields



function ExpandData(turbo){

var turboItem = turbo.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i  turboItem.length; i++){
 but = eval(but+i);
 var turbo = turboItem[i];

 _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.txtField+i.text = turbo.attributes.name;

 }

}
///

Thanks,
Bill


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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Glen Pike

Hi,

   There maybe a typo in your code?

   it should say subMC[textField + i] 


There should be no (dot) . before the (square bracket) [

Basically you treat the movieclip subMC like an array.  It contains some 
text fields textField0, textField1, etc. so you can index the array 
with to get the contents of it.


You can do the same with your other bit of code rather than using eval:

//instead of
but = eval(but+i);

//Try this - not sure if you need to use the this operator, but it 
makes things clearer.

but = this[but + i]



Bill Pelon wrote:

Seems to jumble me up a bit, I get this error.

Expected a field name after '.' operator.
  _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField+i].text = 
turbo.attributes.name;


thanks though...



- Original Message - From: Glen Pike 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?



Erm, I think you might want to try

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text

Not sure.

Bill Pelon wrote:

Hello,

I'm having problems figuring out how to grab an array value and use 
that when targeting.


This is my fucntion below.  What I am wanting to do is take the 
[i]value and be able to use that when trying to write to my textfields


 


function ExpandData(turbo){

var turboItem = turbo.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i  turboItem.length; i++){
 but = eval(but+i);
 var turbo = turboItem[i];

 _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.txtField+i.text = turbo.attributes.name;

 }

}
/// 



Thanks,
Bill


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RE: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Pete Miller
Get rid of the extra period

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField+i].text =
 ^
 ^

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField+i].text =

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Pelon
 Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:33 PM
 To: Flashcoders mailing list
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?
 
 Seems to jumble me up a bit, I get this error.
 
 Expected a field name after '.' operator.
_root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField+i].text =
 turbo.attributes.name;
 
 thanks though...
 
 
 
 - Original Message -
 From: Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
 Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:16 PM
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?
 
 
  Erm, I think you might want to try
 
  _root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text
 
  Not sure.
 
  Bill Pelon wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I'm having problems figuring out how to grab an array value and
use
 that
  when targeting.
 
  This is my fucntion below.  What I am wanting to do is take the
 [i]value
  and be able to use that when trying to write to my textfields
 
 


/
 ///
  function ExpandData(turbo){
 
  var turboItem = turbo.firstChild.childNodes;
  for (var i = 0; i  turboItem.length; i++){
   but = eval(but+i);
   var turbo = turboItem[i];
 
   _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.txtField+i.text = turbo.attributes.name;
 
   }
 
  }
 


/
 //
 
  Thanks,
  Bill
 
 
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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Hans Wichman

Yes...

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text

and u wrote
_root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField + i].text

note the dot after subMC

greetz
JC

On 10/19/06, Bill Pelon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Seems to jumble me up a bit, I get this error.

Expected a field name after '.' operator.
  _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField+i].text = turbo.attributes.name
;

thanks though...



- Original Message -
From: Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?


 Erm, I think you might want to try

 _root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text

 Not sure.

 Bill Pelon wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm having problems figuring out how to grab an array value and use
that
 when targeting.

 This is my fucntion below.  What I am wanting to do is take the
[i]value
 and be able to use that when trying to write to my textfields



 function ExpandData(turbo){

 var turboItem = turbo.firstChild.childNodes;
 for (var i = 0; i  turboItem.length; i++){
  but = eval(but+i);
  var turbo = turboItem[i];

  _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.txtField+i.text = turbo.attributes.name;

  }

 }

///

 Thanks,
 Bill


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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Pelon
This seems to work great on the right hand side and comes back with the 
correct data when traced but I need to use that value as my target.  I may 
be missing something completely obvious as I'm a total newbie on the coding 
so forgive me if I'm overlooking something simple.


I have uploaded my fla and the xml I'm using here if anyone wants to check 
it out.  I have commented out the section I'm having trouble with.


http://www.billpelon.com/mainFeature.zip


The code I'm stuck on is  ClipEvent(load) of the MC on layer 2.

Thanks again,
Bill


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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?



Hi,

   There maybe a typo in your code?

   it should say subMC[textField + i]
There should be no (dot) . before the (square bracket) [

Basically you treat the movieclip subMC like an array.  It contains some 
text fields textField0, textField1, etc. so you can index the array 
with to get the contents of it.


You can do the same with your other bit of code rather than using eval:

//instead of
but = eval(but+i);

//Try this - not sure if you need to use the this operator, but it makes 
things clearer.

but = this[but + i]



Bill Pelon wrote:

Seems to jumble me up a bit, I get this error.

Expected a field name after '.' operator.
  _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.[textField+i].text = 
turbo.attributes.name;


thanks though...



- Original Message - From: Glen Pike 
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To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?



Erm, I think you might want to try

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i].text

Not sure.

Bill Pelon wrote:

Hello,

I'm having problems figuring out how to grab an array value and use 
that when targeting.


This is my fucntion below.  What I am wanting to do is take the 
[i]value and be able to use that when trying to write to my textfields



function ExpandData(turbo){

var turboItem = turbo.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i  turboItem.length; i++){
 but = eval(but+i);
 var turbo = turboItem[i];

 _root.mainMC.auto.subMC.txtField+i.text = turbo.attributes.name;

 }

}
///

Thanks,
Bill


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RE: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
var mc = this[btn + i];

mc is your target.

mc.onRollOver = function() {};

The issue you might have is that you cannot assign functions and certain
properties to a movieclip you are going to loadMovie on because as soon
as the movie is loaded, it overwrites all the methods and properties you
assigned to it except for certain things like _x/_y/_alpha, etc.
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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Victor Gaudioso
Yes, this was just recently an issue I ran up against.  I could not figure 
out why I could not get a trace on an event.  I finally figured it out. 
Good post Steve, I am sure it will save someone A LOT of time.  Victor


The issue you might have is that you cannot assign functions and certain
properties to a movieclip you are going to loadMovie on because as soon
as the movie is loaded, it overwrites all the methods and properties you
assigned to it except for certain things like _x/_y/_alpha, etc.

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var mc = this[btn + i];

mc is your target.

mc.onRollOver = function() {};

The issue you might have is that you cannot assign functions and certain
properties to a movieclip you are going to loadMovie on because as soon
as the movie is loaded, it overwrites all the methods and properties you
assigned to it except for certain things like _x/_y/_alpha, etc.
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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Glen Pike

Aha!

Your text fields on stage are named txtField0, txtField1, etc.

But you are trying to index them as [textField + i]

Sorry that is partly my fault as my original answer said text... not 
txt.. as your code does.


so to clarify..

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[txtField + i].text = turbo.attributes.name;

Should work.

A tip that might help:

If you are trying to find out stuff like this, then you can use a trace 
to make sure you are referencing something correctly - I used:


trace(_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i]);

Which kept returning undefined, so I then used this to find out what was 
in the _root.mainMC.auto.subMC movie clip.


for(obj in _root.mainMC.auto.subMC) {
   trace(obj +  =  + _root.mainMC.auto.subMC[obj]);
}

You can also use the debugger and put a breakpoint in your code - then 
expand the movie clips to see what you have got at that point in time.


Good luck.

Glen
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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Muzak
try the Flashnewbie mailing list
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashnewbie



- Original Message - 
From: Bill Pelon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?


 This seems to work great on the right hand side and comes back with the 
 correct data when traced but I need to use that value as 
 my target.  I may be missing something completely obvious as I'm a total 
 newbie on the coding so forgive me if I'm overlooking 
 something simple.

 I have uploaded my fla and the xml I'm using here if anyone wants to check it 
 out.  I have commented out the section I'm having 
 trouble with.

 http://www.billpelon.com/mainFeature.zip


 The code I'm stuck on is  ClipEvent(load) of the MC on layer 2.

 Thanks again,
 Bill


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Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Pelon

Thanks Glen,

This worked perfectly...

Bill 



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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] incrementing a target?



Aha!

Your text fields on stage are named txtField0, txtField1, etc.

But you are trying to index them as [textField + i]

Sorry that is partly my fault as my original answer said text... not 
txt.. as your code does.


so to clarify..

_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[txtField + i].text = turbo.attributes.name;

Should work.

A tip that might help:

If you are trying to find out stuff like this, then you can use a trace 
to make sure you are referencing something correctly - I used:


trace(_root.mainMC.auto.subMC[textField + i]);

Which kept returning undefined, so I then used this to find out what was 
in the _root.mainMC.auto.subMC movie clip.


for(obj in _root.mainMC.auto.subMC) {
   trace(obj +  =  + _root.mainMC.auto.subMC[obj]);
}

You can also use the debugger and put a breakpoint in your code - then 
expand the movie clips to see what you have got at that point in time.


Good luck.

Glen
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