# Reference MC attached in a loop

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-mc-attached-in-a-loop/205723
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 1, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-mc-attached-in-a-loop/205723 "2006-11-01T11:16:51Z")
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### Author: ![coop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@coop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/coop)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-mc-attached-in-a-loop/205723/1 "2006-11-01T11:16:51Z")

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Hi all,

I have a menu from attaching mc’s in a loop. I want to change the color of the mc on RollOver but I need to be able to ref. what mc. So I think I need to make ref. to the mc as I going through the loop.

The mc info comes from a XML which also supplied the color info for each mc.

[AS]  
myXml = new XML();  
myXml.ignoreWhite = true;  
myXml.onLoad = function(success) {  
if (success) {  
loadBtn();  
} else {  
trace(“XML not loaded”);  
}  
};  
var btn\_spacing = 24;  
myXml.load(“places.xml”);  
loadBtn = function () {  
start = myXml.firstChild.childNodes;  
for (var i = 0; i\<start.length; i++) {  
info = start\*;  
navBtn = nav\_mc.holder\_mc.attachMovie(“btn\_mc”, “btn\_mc+i”, i+1);  
navBtn.base\_mc.\_alpha = 0;  
navBtn.\_y = btn\_spacing\*i;  
navBtn.name = info.attributes.name;  
navBtn.id = info.attributes.id;  
navBtn.idColor = info.attributes.color;  
navBtn.num = this[“btn\_mc+i”]  
navBtn.name\_txt.text = navBtn.name;  
navBtn.onRollOver = function() {  
changeColor(this.num, this.idColor);  
this.base\_mc.\_alpha = 100;  
this.name\_txt.textColor = 0x000000;  
};  
navBtn.onRollOut = function() {  
this.base\_mc.\_alpha = 0;  
this.name\_txt.textColor = 0xffffff;  
};  
navBtn.onRelease = function() {  
trace(this.idColor);  
};  
}  
};  
changeColor = function (tar, col) {  
banColor = new Color(tar);  
banColor.setRGB(col);  
};  
[/AS]

[AS]  
\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“ISO-8859-1”?\>  
\<menu\>  
\<place name=" NORTH WEST" color=“0xfaaa05” /\>  
\<place name=" NORTH WALES" color=“0x9ef807” /\>  
\<place name=" MID WALES" color=“0x0af5ba” /\>  
\<place name=" WEST MIDLANDS" color=“0x0792f8” /\>  
\<place name=" SOUTH WALES" color=“0xf5620a” /\>  
\<place name=" SOUTH WEST" color=“0xf50a80” /\>  
\<place name=" NORTHEAST + WALES" color=“0xf50a0a” /\>  
\</menu\>  
[/AS]