[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader/loadMovie vs. digit on instance name
Yesterday I was building a WindowManager class, and I wanted to assign
random names to each created window. So I went for the obvious:
var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, newWin_ +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );
which gives me something like: _level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456
however, when I tried to load an external image into a movieclip
inside this new Window, MovieClipLoader.loadClip() failed silently,
and loadMovie() gives an error in the path (doesn't specify which
path, but then I found it was the destination movie's path)
setting properties like _newWin.textContainer.text = 'xyz'; works ok,
but I could not load an image into _newWin.imageContainer, even though
I can trace it (gives me
_level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456.imageContainer)
then I did this, and the image loaded correctly, along with the text properties:
var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var randNameArray:Array = randName.split( '' );
var newNameArray:Array = new Array( randNameArray.length );
for ( var i:Number = 0; i randNameArray.length; ++i ) {
newNameArray[i] = String.fromCharCode( 97 + Number(randNameArray[i]) );
}
randName = newNameArray.join( '' );
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, newWin_ +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );
basically I converted the numbers into their letter equivalent,
starting from a, which gives me something like:
_level0.windowContainer.newWin_abcdef
and now both loadMovie() and MovieClipLoader.loadClip() loads the
image correctly
my question is, why is this happening? isn't a digit a valid
'variable-letter' in flash ?
is this a known issue, or is it just me? am I doing something wrong?
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Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader/loadMovie vs. digit on instance name
Hi Wagner,
INMHO, the best way to add your numbers to the name of MovieClip is to
first define a variable as the base name of your mc, then add the number
(id) to that base name. I do it like this :
var baseName:String = newWin_;
var mcID:Number = Math.round( Math.random() * 100 );
var mcName:String = baseName + mcID;
you'll be sure to allways have a string that way!
I usually use this in a loop (for or while) where I use an incremental
number (i++)
var baseName:String = newWin_;
for (var i:Number = 0; i maxMC; i++) {
var mcName:String = baseName + i;
}
HTH
Alain
Wagner Amaral wrote:
Yesterday I was building a WindowManager class, and I wanted to assign
random names to each created window. So I went for the obvious:
var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, newWin_ +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );
which gives me something like: _level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456
however, when I tried to load an external image into a movieclip
inside this new Window, MovieClipLoader.loadClip() failed silently,
and loadMovie() gives an error in the path (doesn't specify which
path, but then I found it was the destination movie's path)
setting properties like _newWin.textContainer.text = 'xyz'; works ok,
but I could not load an image into _newWin.imageContainer, even though
I can trace it (gives me
_level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456.imageContainer)
then I did this, and the image loaded correctly, along with the text
properties:
var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var randNameArray:Array = randName.split( '' );
var newNameArray:Array = new Array( randNameArray.length );
for ( var i:Number = 0; i randNameArray.length; ++i ) {
newNameArray[i] = String.fromCharCode( 97 +
Number(randNameArray[i]) );
}
randName = newNameArray.join( '' );
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, newWin_ +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );
basically I converted the numbers into their letter equivalent,
starting from a, which gives me something like:
_level0.windowContainer.newWin_abcdef
and now both loadMovie() and MovieClipLoader.loadClip() loads the
image correctly
my question is, why is this happening? isn't a digit a valid
'variable-letter' in flash ?
is this a known issue, or is it just me? am I doing something wrong?
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Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader/loadMovie vs. digit on instance name
On 12/9/06, Wagner Amaral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I was building a WindowManager class, and I wanted to assign
random names to each created window. So I went for the obvious:
var randName:String = String(Math.round( Math.random() * 100 ));
var _newWin:Window = Window( _tgt.attachMovie(_linkage, newWin_ +
randName, _tgt.getNextHighestDepth(), initObj) );
which gives me something like: _level0.windowContainer.newWin_123456
A bit of a tangent, but this doesn't seem like a good strategy to me.
Although the odds are against it (literally a million to one), it is
possible to have a duplicate name (especially since random numbers
are not really random). If the goal is to have a unique name for each
instance, why not just keep a static integer variable and increment it
each time?
public static var LINKAGE_ID:String = Window;
private static var windowNameIndex:Number = 0;
public static function createWindow(parent:MovieClip, init:Object):Window {
var windowName:String = window + String(windowNameIndex++);
var clip:MovieClip = parent.attachMovie(LINKAGE_ID, windowName,
parent.getNextHighestDepth(), init);
return Window(clip);
}
Or am I missing some requirement?
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