I use the ActionScript Cookbook containers for this. They're very good
at automatically arranging things in rows/columns.
http://www.person13.com/ascblibrary/
something like this:
import ascb.containers.Box;
box = new Box();
box.parent = _root.myClip;
box.direction = "horizontal";
box.spacing = 4;
for(var i;i<10;i++){
box.addElement("symbolID",{myText:"TabName",initData:myData});
}
Handles spacing, attachMovie, spacing, etc. Very handy dandy class. If
you're changing the widths of them dynamically, you can re-arrange them
by calling box.arrange() I believe.
HTH,
Chris
Dennis Hart wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way or even the best way to go about
attaching a single movieClip multiple times along the x axis when the actual
width of the clip is determined my the content that it loads.
In this case I am just trying to serve up a number of "buttons" that look
like tabs. The clip being attached handles the creation of a text field,
loading and formatting its text (or label) then drawing up the graphic which
makes it look lie a tab.
I would like to attach them all at once using a loop and the main problem I
encountered is getting flash to instantiate and recognize the previously
loaded clip on the stage so that its x position and width can be determined
before the loop recommences.
I tried something like
if (tabArray.length != 0) {
var i:Number = 0;
var clipPositioner:Number;
var previouslyLoadedClip:MovieClip;
while (i < tabArray.length) {
var tabName = "TabBtn" + i;
var level = i + 1;
if (tabName == "TabBtn0) {
previouslyLoadedClip = tabName;
} else {
previouslyLoadedClip = tabName.substring(0, 5) + (i-1);
clipPositioner = [previouslyLoadedClip]_x +
[previouslyLoadedClip]_width + 1;
this.attachMovie("TabBtn_mc", tabName , level, { _x: clipPositioner
});
updateAfterEvent(); // THIS DOESN'T WORK - NEITHER DOES :
onClipEvent(load) { i++ }
i++;
}
}
I understand why the updateAfterEvent() and onClipEvent(load) methods don't
work within the context above, but I am still uncertain how would be the
best way to go about accomplishing this.
I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Dennis
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