looping through a button array

[j0se]

hi all,

i have a bunch of buttons (with textboxes in them) on the stage, each called butt1, butt2, butt3, butt4 and i want to loop through them but i'm unsure how to target their text property inside the loop

this is what i have:

butt1.text = "button1";
butt2.text = "button2";
.
.
.

this is what i want to achieve:


// loop through the butonCount
for (i=1; i'<'buttonCount; i++) { //excuse the quotation binding the less-than sign

butt[i].text = "button" + i;

}

it's the butt[i] bit that i'm unsure about

i tried holding the name in a var and then targetted its text prop like:

theButton = "butt" + i ;
theButton.text = "button" + i;

but that doesn't work (i guess it;s just a variable value and as such it has no properties

do i need to create a button array (?)

thanks all

:crazy:

[claudio]

nbuttons = 3;
for (var i = 1; i<=nbuttons; i++) {
this["butt"+i].text = "button"+i;
}

[j0se]

cheers for that!

i have a second problem though:

i have a button the the stage, with an instance name of: "butt1"

the button itself lives inside a movieclip, where it is called thisButton (so i can do things like: thisBUtton.onRelase...)

when flash runs and I click the button I want to output the button's insance name on the stage (i.e. butt1) but i'm only getting the button's instance name in it's own movie

this._name = thisButton

is the name i want stored in a separate property?

edit: sorry - i realise that the problem is that the button code is inside the mc itself, where the button's name is thisButton

sorry again and thanks for the previous help!

[claudio]

welcome ;)