# For loop problem and property assignment of object

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/for-loop-problem-and-property-assignment-of-object/145186
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**Created:** [April 20, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/for-loop-problem-and-property-assignment-of-object/145186 "2005-04-20T16:24:51Z")
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### Author: ![PainBehindMyEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@PainBehindMyEye](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PainBehindMyEye)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/for-loop-problem-and-property-assignment-of-object/145186/1 "2005-04-20T16:24:51Z")

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Related to my other thread on retrieving object names from an array, I’m running into an issue where clips that are dynamically assigned names and attached to a “container” along with a \_type property are getting caught up in for… loop being used to sort through all of the clips attached to “container”.

```php

function collectAndSort() {
	for (var obj in container) {
		if (typeof container[obj] == "movieclip") {
			whichType = container[obj]._type;
			whichItem(whichType);
			trace(whichType);
		}
	}
}

```

the whichItem function looks like this (nothing fancy):

```php

function whichItem (whichType){
	//trace("whichItem function was called");
	if (whichType == "1mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Double Door Display";
		unitItem.item_desc = "80 x 96 Display Frame"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "80 x 96";
		unitItem.unit_price = 100;
	}else if (whichType == "2mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Single Door Display";
		unitItem.item_desc = "42 x 96 Display Frame"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "42 x 96";
		unitItem.unit_price = 85;
	}else if (whichType == "3mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Side Window Right";
		unitItem.item_desc = "Side Window Panel With Right Window"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "30 x 96";
		unitItem.unit_price = 150;
	}else if (whichType == "4mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Beam";
		unitItem.item_desc = "Vertical Connector Beam"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "12 x 96";
		unitItem.unit_price = 75;
	}else if (whichType == "5mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Side Window Left";
		unitItem.item_desc = "Side Window Panel With Left Window"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "30 x 96";
		unitItem.unit_price = 150;
	}else if (whichType == "6mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Shelf";
		unitItem.item_desc = "Brochure Display Shelf"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "24 x 48";
		unitItem.unit_price = 100;
	}else if (whichType == "7mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Poster Panel lg";
		unitItem.item_desc = "Large Top Mounted Poster Panel"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "80 x 24";
		unitItem.unit_price = 40;
	}else if (whichType == "8mc"){
		unitItem.item_id = whichType;
		unitItem.item_name = "Poster Panel sm";
		unitItem.item_desc = "Small Top Mounted Poster Panel"
		unitItem.item_dimensions = "0 x 24";
		unitItem.unit_price = 40;
	}
	_root.purchaseArray.push(unitItem);
}

```

And just for reference, here’s how those pesky clips got there (again, posted in a previous thread):

```php

for (k=1; k<9; k++) {
	this["btn"+k].kvar = k;
	this["btn"+k].onPress = function() {
		getclips(this.kvar);
		trash.enabled = true;
		btn_trash_all.enabled = true;
	};
}

/ ******************************************************************************
   Clip handling: attaching, dragging and also tracking (via "reportMe")	
****************************************************************************** /   
function getclips(l) {
	clip = container.attachMovie(l+"mc", "mc"+i, i);
	clip._type = l+"mc";// "_type" property used for clip type comparisons
	reportMe = clip;
	myType = reportMe._type;
	//trace(reportMe._type);
	addSubtotal(myType);
	clip.k = l;
	clip._x = 180;
	clip._y = 180;
	clip.onPress = doDrag;
	clip.onRelease = clip.onReleaseOutside=noDrag;
	cliparray.push(clip);
	clip.ivar = i;
	i++;
}

```

Now when I run it and attach a few clips, I get their proper \_type, but whichType is assigned the same thing for each(?). Here’s what I get in a trace after dragging out 3 clips and calling the collectAndSort function:

```auto

6mc
4mc
2mc
Single Door Display
Single Door Display
Single Door Display

```

clip 6mc, 4mc, and 2mc are correct but the matching for a text output via whichItem isn’t and it’s called in that for… loop. They shouldn’t each be matched to “Single Door Display”.  
I’m thinking this needs to be approached differently but I don’t have the option of writing out (php or whatever) and then reading back in to to split etc. (was reading the “best of” archives as saw a great one on this).

So, here’s my tangled mess. I know that it is at least getting that far which is encouraging, just that the final sorting through to populate a text field as a purchase list gives me a match for the first clip attached (ie “Single Door Display”).

Later edit…sorry forgot to mention that “Single Door Display” string comes from the unitItem.item\_name property matched in the whichItem function (also shown above).

Can anybody help out a guy in over his head? :huh: