Imagine I have in my library a series of MovieClips with linkage identifiers
like so:
sym0
sym1
sym2
...
sym29
In AS2, if I wanted to create instances of each one (or perhaps decide which
symbol to use based on XML data, for example), I could use a for loop:
for (var i:Number = 0; i < 30; i ++) {
var new_mc:MovieClip = parent_mc.attachMovie("sym" + i, "sym" + i, i);
// do stuff with clip
}
and create each symbol via passing a concatenated string as symbolName.
Now, in AS3, I can't think of a way to do this efficiently. In our simple
example, I can only think of the following:
for (var i:int = 0; i < 30; i ++) {
var sym:MovieClip;
switch (i) {
case 0: sym = new sym0();
case 1: new sym1();
case 2: new sym2();
...
}
// do stuff with clip
}
Is there a more efficient way to do this in AS3? You can't really
instantiate a class based on a stringname, can you?
--
-jonathan howe :: 404.434.2321 :: 180 High St Apt 26 Portland, ME 04101
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