Affecting 100 buttons all at once

programming flash
1

That’s what i need to do!
Switch on or off or trigger a gotoAndStop in 100 instances of the same button symbol by pressing a ‘reset’ button…
Is this even possible.?
At the moment I can only affect 1 button!!

thanks for help… sorry if it seems like a dumb question, but it’s friday and my head is going bongo-floyd!

thanks

marll

2

If the instances are all named like button1, button2, button3,…, button100, and your reset button is located in the same timeline as your buttons, you can use something like this:

resetbutton.onPress = function(){
for(var i=1; i<=100;++i){
this._parent["button"+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
}
}
3

i was rather hoping to find a solution where I wouldn’t have to rename all the buttons [ they currently all have the same name]
…but, if that works, then so be it!

thanks again Claudio. you are a real help as ever,

marll

4

Anytime marll :slight_smile:

5

i still don’t understand how you can be a ‘novice’!!!

:]

6

i find a very odd problem now!.. i need more than 100 buttons, in fact twice , maybe 3 x as may… i have named each button reveal1, reveal2 etc…
but now I have gotten past 100, flash does not see my buttons with any number higher… Any ideas how to get around this??

thanks
your puzzled friend

marll

7 
resetbutton.onPress = function(){
        for(var i=1; i<=**300**;++i){
                this._parent["reveal"+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
        }
}
8

i am really sorry… i worked it out … call the cops off

9

WHOA hold on there claudio!

what the heck isthis?!

[AS]
this._parent[“reveal”+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
[/AS]

iam confused on why u path ur mcs like that

why add a this…and a _parent.??O_O I am stupid

and

btw, so by using [“reveal”+i] you can write multiple mc names like that?

so basically flash would see that as

_parent.reveal1.gotoAndStop(frame);
_parent.reveal2.gotoAndStop(frame);
_parent.reveal3.gotoAndStop(frame);
_parent.reveal4.gotoAndStop(frame);

am i right?

10

don’t worry aout the pathe name to much… i am not actually using that path, i use one to the mc which in this case is reveal_mc

btw, so by using [“reveal”+i] you can write multiple mc names like that?

so basically flash would see that as

_parent.reveal1.gotoAndStop(frame);
_parent.reveal2.gotoAndStop(frame);
_parent.reveal3.gotoAndStop(frame);
_parent.reveal4.gotoAndStop(frame);

am i right? **[/QUOTE]

Exactamundo! that is right…

mart

11

*Originally posted by Blenderben *
**WHOA hold on there claudio!

what the heck isthis?!

[AS]
this._parent[“reveal”+i].gotoAndStop(frame);
[/AS]**
That code is inside the onPress handler for the resetbutton. The scope right now is the resetbutton. If i want to reference something that is in the same timeline as the resetbutton, i need to go up one level in the movie hierarchy. Thats why i used this._parent. Im pointing to one level up from the current object.
Was that confusing? :pa: