onRelease Question

programming flash
1

if you have some code like this.

 
for (var i = 0; i < lngth; i++) {
var boxNames = ["yb", "ob", "rb", "bb", "pb", "gb"];...
 
this[boxNames*].onRelease = function () {...

I want to target all the MC i didn’t click on. How do I do that?

Thanks

2 
var boxNames = ["yb", "ob", "rb", "bb", "pb", "gb"];
for (var i = 0; i<boxNames.length; i++) {
	var box = this[boxNames*];
	box.id = i;
	box.onRelease = function() {
		targetBoxes(this.id);
	};
}
function targetBoxes(id) {
	for (var i = 0; i<boxNames.length; i++) {
		var box = this[boxNames*];
		if (i != id) {
			trace(box+" is not targetted");
		} else {
			trace(box+" is targetted");
		}
	}
}

scotty(-:

3

Thank you.

4

no problem =)

5

Still can’t get it?

Here is a test .fla I tried.

for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
 var menuNames = ["yb", "ob"];
 var boxNames;
 switch (i) {
 case 0 :
  var yb:MovieClip = (this.attachMovie ("yelBox", "yelBox", +i, i));
  boxNames = yb;
  yb._x = 200;
  yb._y = 200;
  break;
 case 1 :
  var ob:Button = (this.attachMovie ("orgBox", "orgBox", +i, i));
  boxNames = ob;
  ob._x = 300;
  ob._y = 200;
  break;
  test (boxNames);
 }
}
//Main Menu
function test () {
 var boxNames = ["yb", "ob"];
 for (var i = 0; i < boxNames.length; i++) {
  var box = this[boxNames*];
  box.id = i;
  box.onRelease = function () {
   targetBoxes (this.id);
  };
 }
 function targetBoxes (id) {
  for (var i = 0; i < boxNames.length; i++) {
   var box = this[boxNames*];
   if (i != id) {
    trace (box + " is not targetted");
   }
   else {
    trace (box + " is targetted");
   }
  }
 }
}
6

I have no idea what you’re after but this works

var boxNames = ["yb", "ob"];
for (var i = 0; i<2; i++) {
	switch (i) {
	case 0 :
		var yb:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("yelBox", "yb", i);
		yb._x = 200;
		yb._y = 200;
		break;
	case 1 :
		var ob:Button = this.attachMovie("orgBox", "ob", i);
		ob._x = 300;
		ob._y = 200;
		break;
	}
	test();
}
//Main Menu
function test() {
	for (var i = 0; i<boxNames.length; i++) {
		var box = this[boxNames*];
		box.id = i;
		box.onRelease = function() {
			targetBoxes(this.id);
		};
	}
}
function targetBoxes(id) {
	for (var i = 0; i<boxNames.length; i++) {
		var box = this[boxNames*];
		if (i != id) {
			trace(box+" is not targetted");
		} else {
			trace(box+" is targetted");
		}
	}
}

scotty(-:

7

Just learning really. Just trying to figure out how all this works.

Thank you.

8

:thumb:

9

http://www.n99creations.com/?pID=tutorials&col=Blue&tut=basics_of_actionscript_for_flash&p=1&l=Flash_MX_04

will help :wink: