Disappearing AS generated movieclips and textfields

programming flash
1

This issue seems rather bizarre to me but I suspect that what I am missing is something obvious. The visual output that I would expect from the code below is a diagonal string of ten number signs each followed by its own value of i. However, instead I find a “#9” in the bottom right hand corner.

The output box displays:


#0
outer0
#1
outer1
etc...



    var i = 0;
    var myObj:Array = new Array();
    while(i<10){
        myObj* = "outer"+i;
        this.createEmptyMovieClip("outer"+i, 0);
        this[myObj*]._x = i*50;
        this[myObj*]._y = i*50;
        this[myObj*].createTextField("inner", 1, 0, 0, 100, 100);
        this[myObj*].inner.text = "#"+i;
        trace(this[myObj*].inner.text);
        trace(myObj*);
        i++;
    }

Shouldn’t the movieclip generated by createEmptyMovieClip() persist through each iteration of the while loop instead of disappearing every time i changes? I can see that happening when using the debugger. What should I do to cause each of the movie clips generated to remain on the screen?

Thanks,
M. Vatki

2

You’re creating all of them at the same depth (0) which isn’t possible. You’ll have to make a new depth for each one. Something like this:

var i = 0;
var myObj:Array = new Array();
while (i < 10) {
	myObj* = "outer" + i;
	this.createEmptyMovieClip("outer" + i, i);
	this[myObj*]._x = i * 50;
	this[myObj*]._y = i * 50;
	this[myObj*].createTextField("inner", 1, 0, 0, 100, 100);
	this[myObj*].inner.text = "#" + i;
	trace(this[myObj*].inner.text);
	trace(myObj*);
	i++;
}
3

Thanks for the quick response. I didn’t know that depth differences were mandatory :). It makes sense now though.