Hi everyone,
I’m working on a project that requires me to load variables into my movie dynamically.
I’ve gotten to the point where I get the variables loaded into flash. But then I cannot use them dynamically once inside flash. I understand code pretty well But I am relatively new to actionscript.
The variables have to be used dynamically because I’ll never know how many variables there will be. Could be 1 could be zero, could even be 1000.
So say my loaded variable var.txt had this line in it.
File1=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile.rar&File2=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile1.rar&File3=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile10.rar&File4=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile11.rar&File5=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile2.zip&File6=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile3.rar&File7=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile4.rar&File8=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile5.rar&File9=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile6.rar&File10=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile7.rar&File11=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile8.rar&File12=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile9.rar&Img1=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (10) of objectBack.png&Img2=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (11) of objectBack.png&Img3=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (2) of objectBack.png&Img4=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (3) of objectBack.png&Img5=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (4) of objectBack.png&Img6=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (5) of objectBack.png&Img7=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (6) of objectBack.png&Img8=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (7) of objectBack.png&Img9=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (8) of objectBack.png&Img10=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy (9) of objectBack.png&Img11=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/Copy of objectBack.png&Img12=Pages/PageData/Page1/Imgs/objectBack.png&NumFiles=12&NumImgs=12
How then could I use these variables in flash without knowing how many there will be.
For example…
I know that I can target a variable statically like this:
_root.LoadedContent_mc.LoadedContent2_mc.Page1_mc.MyFiles.File1;
But if there is more then one file flash does not know how to handle it.
If i try this I get the value of “MyFiles” with the number i='s smacked on the end of it:
var i:Number = 1;
var FilePaths:Array = Array();
for (x in _root.LoadedContent_mc.LoadedContent2_mc.Page1_mc.MyFiles)
{
FilePaths.push(_root.LoadedContent_mc.LoadedContent2_mc.Page1_mc.MyFiles.File+i);
i++;
}
this is a simplified version of what I’m doing… I actually have a bunch of if statements to weed out the onload events and variables I don’t use as a file path.
What would make sense is if I could target the variables like so
_root.LoadedContent_mc.LoadedContent2_mc.Page1_mc.MyFiles*;
“i” equalling the current file name 1-?
So any help or suggestions of an alternate way are appreciated…
thanks again.
