Creating an array of movie clips

[SuperDaiv]

Does anybody know how to go about creating an array of movie clips? Can it be done? I can't find it in any of my books.

[ilyaslamasse]

what do you mean ?

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[SuperDaiv]

Well i have about 20 images, and depending on a variable (which will hold a number 0 to 19), i want to scroll (through a loop that sets the _x property of) the corresponding image across the screen.

[SuperDaiv]

(and the images will be in movie clips)

[suprabeener]

you can go about it two ways.

say your movies are named "zero","one","two" ... "nineteen" and reside in _root.

either have the array contain strings that will evaluate to be the movie.

_root.myArray = ["zero","one","two" ... "nineteen"];

then to call them:

_root[_root.myArray[4]];

would refer to the movie named "four"

or (this is probably better) populate the array with actual references to the movies:

_root.myArray = [_root.zero,_root.one,_root.two ... _root.nineteen];

then referring to the array reference is the same as referring to the movie, so to make "eleven" play:

_root.myArray[11].play();

[SuperDaiv]

I love you.

[byis]

This idea might work for what im trying to do as well. Im trying to create next/previous track buttons for audio player.
I could set all my external files into an array but I couldnt really assign them a number would have to have some type of formula involved. Any suugestions suprabeener?

Say I have 10 songs in root called 0.swf - 9.swf.

[suprabeener]

since the loadMovie command is expecting a string as the argument, the first method would probably work best for your purposes:

_root.songArray = ["0.swf',"1.swf","2.swf"...];

and to load a random song into _level10:

loadMovieNum(_root.songArray[random(_root.songArray.length)],10);

or song number 8:

loadMovieNum(_root.songArray[8],10);