Call all buttons? AS2

1

hi,

how can i call all buttons within a certain movieclip (without naming each instance individually)?

Im looking for the actionscript.

Thanks!

2

for loop

with each button called but1, but2 etc

standard

3 
for(var i in myMovieClip) {
var thisMovie:Object = myMovieClip*;
if (typeOf(thisMovie) === "movieclip") {
trace(thisMovie);
}
}
4

this is great, I’ve had this doubt before and this aims at it.

there’s something else I’d like to ask, though. I know it might sound kinda stupid, but what the heck.

suppose you’ve got several buttons in a movieclip, each one with its set of instructions, whatever. (I’m going for buttons, but I think this could apply for any sort of object, really)
each button’s got a prefix of some sort and then its specific name, say ‘buttonHere_btn’, ‘buttonThere_btn’, ‘buttonEverywhere_btn’.
all I want is to change the specific bit in each buttons’ designation…

could this be done with an array holding the specific names for each button, that is [“Here”, “There”, “Everywhere”] and then loop across this array? how do I name each button then? I’m looking for the syntax, 'cause I’ve been trying this and it always messes up…

thanks!

5

that is possible but incrementing with numbers is the standard

for example xml

this.firstchild.ChildNodes[0] = title 0 = "here"
this.firstchild.ChildNodes[1] = title 1 = "there"
etc

also you should use movieclips as buttons,