RE: FLASH: how do you dynamically re-name variables ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

[Dave Hollinden]

Since your duplicated clips all have unique names based on a number, what

you need to do is to set your header variables to values which are dependent

on their names.


So, load your bulletindata3.txt variables into a movie clip with an instance

name of Data.  Then set the header variable values to:


Set Variable: "header" = "/Data/header" & GetProperty ( "", _name )


You'll need to modify this to suit your variable names, but it ought to get

you going.


Dave Hollinden

Web Design Team Lead

dhollindensonicfoundry [dot] com

-----Original Message-----

From: Christian Cook [

christian [dot] cookisluk [dot] com (mailto:christian [dot] cookisluk [dot] com)

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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 5:45 AM

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Subject: FLASH: how do you dynamically re-name variables ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?



I am building a bulletin board in Flash 4 for a company intranet. All the

messages, headers, etc are stored in text files (with the view to hooking up

to a database). "m" is the number of messages (Loaded from txt files in

first frame), "z" is the z-index counter which starts at 1, "c" is a counter

which starts at 1 also. (I didn't combine c and z as other elements

elsewhere in the move add to z as other things are duplicated.)


The following is the script I am using to duplicate enough message boxes

according to how many messages there are and then space them out.


Loop While (/globals/:m > 0)

      Set Variable: "/globals/:m" = /globals/:m - 1

      Set Variable: "/globals/:c" = /globals/:c + 1

      Set Variable: "/globals/:z" = /globals/:z + 1

      Set Variable: "n" = "message"&/globals/:c

      Set Variable: "p" = n&"/:header"

      Duplicate Movie Clip ("/message", n, /globals/:z)

      Load Variables ("bulletindata3.txt", n)

      Set Property (p, Name) = "header"&/globals/:c

      Set Property (n, Y Position) = GetProperty (n, _y) +

(/globals/:c)*(GetProperty (n, _height) + 15)

End Loop


The only bit that doesn't work is the Set Property (p, Name) =

"header"&/globals/:c bit. As you can see, I'm no programmer. What i am

actually trying to do is dynamiclly rename the variable text field "header"

within movie clip "message" so that it is called "header1" in the first

duplication, "header2" in the second etc.. So that the various message

headers stored in bulletindata3.txt will load into the correct boxes as they

are dynamically created.


Any help greatly appreciated, sniggering is permitted.


Regards,

Christian Cook

Designer, ISL

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