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playing variable movieclip

playing variable movieclip

2004-03-18 - By Jesse Warden

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You will, but only partially. 90% of software bugs are mis-spellings. Mine
too.
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Sonja [mailto:treinmobiel@(protected)]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 08:54 AM
To: flashnewbie@(protected)
Subject: RE: [Flashnewbie] playing variable movieclip

Looking back, it's completely obvious of course. And this did solve my
problem.
Seems 90% of my time is spend figuring out I misplaced a period or forgot to
make text a different colour than my background.
Hopefully I'll grow out of that. Thank you for your help.

Kind regards,
Sonja

-- --Original Message-- --
From: Jesse Warden [mailto:warden@(protected)]
Sent: 18 March 2004 14:34
To: 'flashnewbie@(protected)'
Subject: RE: [Flashnewbie] playing variable movieclip

if _root.character is "jesterxl", and you have a movie clip on _root called
_root.jesterxl, then, this will work:

_root[_root.character].play();

If it's in a movie clip, like your mc_player, then:

_root.mc_player[_root.character].play();

Notice the period placement.
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Sonja [mailto:treinmobiel@(protected)]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 02:59 AM
To: flashnewbie@(protected)
Subject: [Flashnewbie] playing variable movieclip
I'm sure there's a rather simple solution to my problem but I seem unable to
find the answer.
I'm working on a game in which you can choose between some characters to
play with. When you choose the number of that character (1, 2 etc.) is saved
in _root.character.
These characters are placed in a different movieclip named 'mc_player', so,
character 1 on frame 1, with as name '1'.
Now I'm trying to make the character walk. (ie. Play movieclip "1"); I
thought it was done as followed:
_root.mc_player.[_root.character].play();

But that doesn't work. Anyone that can enlighten me about the subject or has
any clues where I can find something about this?

Kind regards,

Sonja

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<DIV>You
will, but only partially.  90% of software bugs are mis-spellings. 
Mine too.</DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left>-- --Original Message-- -- From: Sonja
[mailto:treinmobiel@(protected)] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004
08:54 AM To: flashnewbie@(protected) Subject:
RE: [Flashnewbie] playing variable movieclip </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
Looking back, it's
completely obvious of course. And this did solve my problem.
<o:p></o:p>
Seems 90% of my time
is spend figuring out I misplaced a period or forgot to make text a different
colour than my background.
<o:p></o:p>
Hopefully I'll grow
out of that. Thank you for your help. <o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
Kind
regards,<o:p></o:p>
<st1:PersonName
style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag
.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x">Sonja<
/st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
-- --Original
Message-- -- From: Jesse
Warden [mailto:warden@(protected)] Sent: 18 March 2004 14:34 To:
'flashnewbie@(protected)' Subject: RE: [Flashnewbie] playing
variable movieclip
<o:p> </o:p>
<DIV>
if
_root.character is "jesterxl", and you have a movie clip on _root called
_root.jesterxl, then, this will work:<o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
 <o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
_root[_root
.character].play();<o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
 <o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
If it's
in a movie clip, like your mc_player, then:<o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
 <o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
_root.mc_player[
_root.character].play();<o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
 <o:p></o:p></DIV>
<DIV>
Notice
the period placement.<o:p></o:p></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">
-- --Original
Message-- -- From: Sonja
[mailto:treinmobiel@(protected)] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 02:59
AM To:
flashnewbie@(protected) Subject: [Flashnewbie] playing
variable
movieclip<o:p></o:p>
I'm sure there's a rather
simple
solution to my problem but I seem unable to find the answer.
<o:p></o:p>
I'm working on a game in which
you can choose between some characters to play with. When you choose the
number of that character (1, 2 etc.) is saved in 
_root.character.<o:p></o:p>
These characters are placed in
a
different movieclip named 'mc_player', so, character 1 on frame 1, with as
name '1'.<o:p></o:p>
Now I'm trying to make the
character walk. (ie. Play movieclip "1"); I thought it was done as followed
:
<o:p></o:p>
_root.mc_player.[_root
.character].play();<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>

But that doesn't work. Anyone
that can enlighten me about the subject or has any clues where I can find
something about this?<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>

Kind
regards,<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>

Sonja<o:p></o:p></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>