Hi Attila,
I get your point but,even if i change the code to read
_root.attachMovie("butt_btn", "butt"+i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
will not produce the result of having the buttons placed ontop of the labels
where i want them.
You say that I only produce an array reference to the butt+i. But I use the
same code to produce a number of textFields using the same code and I get the
results I want,why is this not working with my buttons?
If I want to use the array to give me the appropriate iterations and create the relevant buttons then, how would I go about it?
Thanks
JohnT
PS
With the last line of code I was attempting at creating interaction with the
various butt[i]
Rákos Attila wrote:
You are using square brackets a little bit confusing and in chaotic
manner :)
JT> _root.createTextField("mytext"+[i], this.getNextHighestDepth(), myX, 0,
100, 30);
Why do you refer to i as [i]? Well, accidentally the actual result
will be mytext0, mytext1, mytext2, etc. but a simple "mytext" + i
gives the same result. If you type "mytext" + [i], then with your
square brackets first you create an array with single element of i,
and since the first operand of + operator is a string, this array will
be converted to string (which actually results i as a string), and
appended to "mytext". So you rely on a side effect of the array to
string conversion.
JT> myId = _root["mytext"+[i]];
the same
JT> _root.attachMovie("butt_btn", "butt"+[i], this.getNextHighestDepth());
and here too
JT> btn = ["butt"+[i]];
and this line is causing troubles, probably you wanted to write
btn = _root["butt" + i];
Your original code doesn't refer to the button instance, but creates
an array (square brackets!) with a single element of a string which
consists of a string literal "butt" and a string representation of an
array (square brackets again!) having i as its single element. So
after all btn refers to an Array instance (not the button) and you set
_x, _y properties of this array (well, there are no such built-in
properties, but you create them).
Attila
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