# Cycling through movie instances?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cycling-through-movie-instances/196273>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cycling-through-movie-instances/196273 "2006-08-07T09:19:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![cykohed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@cykohed](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cykohed)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cycling-through-movie-instances/196273/1 "2006-08-07T09:19:19Z")

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Hi all,

I am currently working a flash map which feature over 600 plots, which i need to be able to cycle through and control via actionscripting.

The position of the movieclips will generally not move and remain in position to its relevent parent movieclip, ~At best i wish to assign properties to each movie name, or cycle trhough each instance name.  
(e.g a loop that adds a incremental number to the instance name and lets me change colour/alpha of the object)

I have a good understanding of actionscript 2.0 and have searched the web and books for the correct direction. Just wondered if you guys could point me in the right direction?

Do I do this with OOP, i.e assigning objects to each plot point:

Plot 120: Property type: Escher Size: 3 bedroom etc

Or with arrays? or a more simpler way?

Desperate for some guidence on this guys.