How to use for loop to set the visible property of many movieclips

programming flash
1

Hello,

I have many photo MovieClips that need to set visible to false, for example:

mphoto0.visible = false;
mPhoto1.visible = false;
mPhoto2.visible = false;
mPhoto3.visible = false;
mPhoto4.visible = false;
mPhoto5.visible = false;
…
…
mPhoto 50.visible = false;

How can I use the for loop to accomplish the same result with AS 3? For example:

var i:Number;

for (i=0:i<50:i++){
xxxxxxxxxxxxx(i).visible = false;
}

Thanks and best regards

2

you could put the movieclips in an array, and loop through that array…

3

If the container mc contains only your photo-mcs, you can simply make all of them invisible like this :

for (var i:Number = 0; i < numChildren; i++) {
    getChildAt(i).visible = false;
}

Cheers.

4

You can still use the old school way:


var i:Number;
for (i=0:i<50:i++){
this['mPhoto'+i].visible = false;
}

However, you should store all the MovieClips in an Array when you create them, then loop through that Array.

5

^wait, you could still do that? cool… but yeah, storing them in an array is probably good practice.

6

Hello all,

Thanks for your help. It is working now.

I am an old programmer, I used to use the following method(-:

var i:Number;
for(i=0;i<50;i++){
this[‘mPhoto’+i].visible = false;
}

Thanks and best regards

Alex