attachMovie question

programming flash
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here’s my question:

I have 4 buttons on the stage which, when pressed, attaches one of 4 movieClips to an emptyClip on the stage. EG:
pressing button 2 runs this script:

emptyClip.attachMovie(“movieClip2”, “movieClip2”, 0);

What I want to do is be able to trace the name of the clip that is attached to emptyClip at the time of pressing another button on the stage, like a confirmation button that traces, for example, that “movieClip2” is the final selection.

I can only get “_name” to return the name of the emptyClip

I hope this makes sense!

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if i’m not mistaken… u want to show a text is’nt it??

3

Hi,
Not sure if this will give you want you want, but try it:
[AS]trace(emptyClip._name-1);[/AS]

essentially if you put your trace on the button,(say button3)that code should give you the result of what the previous button did ? !!!

Let me know

SteveD

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I’m not sure what u mean… What I ultimately want to do is to store the users selected movieClip name (the one attached to emptyClip) to a database when they hit the “confirm” button…

5

Hi,
Sorry I thought you was trying to trace the previously loaded clip, the code I posted will not work anyway, so back to the drawing board.
A quick and dirty way would be to do this :
On your main timeline declare a var, something like :
var count =0;
In your movie clips that are being loaded into the empty clip, put in the first frame
[AS]_root.count=1;[/AS]
and so on, so that each mc increases the var by one.
Then on the next ( or perhaps the last frame of your movie, write some if else statements like:
[AS]if(count==1){
save clip1;
} else if (count==2){
save clip2[/AS]

and so on, obviously the save clip bit needs to be changed to whatever code you are using when the confirm button is hit.

Cheers

SteveD

6

You could simply place the following code on the first frame of each movie clip you are loading

_root.vName=“someClipImAttaching”;

Short of that easy method… there is a more complex way using a “for in” loop to get it. If you don’t like the first suggestion let me know and I’ll describe the “for in” method.

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Thanks SteveD & David,

The SteveD idea works great. It’s for a prototype of a site, so quick and dirty is good enough for now.

Cheers & thanks for the quick response.

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Hi Tezza,
Glad it helped, Davids method is identical, he’s just using a string instead of a numeric, but essentially it would work the same.
Also, he’s right, a for…loop would probably be more efficient, but if you only have four clips to worry about it doesn’t make a lot of difference

Cheers

SteveD

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Yep, I see what you mean, I’ll keep David’s method in mind if it gets a little complex…

Cheers

Terry