Your right. I am passing a string.

But I'm trying to use that string to access an array by the same name.

someArray = { label: "my text" };
showPopup("someArray"); // send a string which is the name of my array

in the function:

myDynamicText.text = myArray["label"]; // try to use the passed string to access the array.


This won't access some array. How do I convert that string over to something that will work?

-b




On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Andy Herrman wrote:

I think this is your problem:

showPopup("myarray");

You're passing showPopup a string with the value "myarray", not the
array.  Remove the quotes and you should be good.

 -Andy

On 3/12/07, Bill Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do you access an associate array using a variable?

Inside my function popup["text"]; won't access the array. I can't
find any information in the books I have Actionsript Cookbook and
Actionscript for Flash MX.

Anyone dealt with this before?

// Define the text and titles for the popups
var myarray = { text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ..." };

// Testing - this works!
trace(myarray["text"]);

// Show the popup
function showPopup(popup) {
        mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay("on");
mainMap[popup].label_title.text = popup["text"]; // This doesn't work.
        trace(popup["text"]);
};

showPopup("myarray");
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