I agree with Mr. Tom Rhodes. Storing references to your "buttons" in an array is far better than trying to create and use "dynamic" instance names like "bar"+i. You can tack on data properties to the buttons as well, so they have information about themselves that travels with them.
Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning & Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design Blog (note: these are for Bank of America employees only) -----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of tom rhodes Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:18 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Finding and Removing a Sprite: PART II ok, bar isn't the name of the sprite, it's a variable with name bar which contains a reference to your sprite... if you want to use names then do something like bar.name = String("bar_" + i); but personally i'd use an array like so... var bars:Array = []; function createBars():void { for (var i:int=0; i<totalbars; i++) { var bar:Sprite = new Sprite(); ............... addChild(bar); bars.push(bar); { } then you can get at the bars later to do stuff with them or remove them... On 23 February 2010 17:55, Lehr, Theodore <ted_l...@federal.dell.com> wrote: > So here is my next issue... One of the functions creates a dynamic amount > sprites based on an xml feed, like so > > > function createBars():void > { > for (var i:int=0; i<totalbars; i++) > { > var bar:Sprite = new Sprite(); > > ............... > > addChild(bar); > > { > } > > And see this this is where my ears start to bleed... this is seemingly > creating, say, 9 Sprites ALL with the same name "bar".... I need to keep the > new Sprite() line in the loop for them to be created... but then I need some > way to access them to delete them.... > > Any ideas? > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
