Comments on: AS3 creating movieclips dynamically

By: tom in SoCal

tom in SoCal — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:15:28 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you.

I only wish I’d found this about five hours ago!!

By: Hadi Tavakoli

Hadi Tavakoli — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:40:20 +0000

@nck

Please note that I mean completly two different things when I talk about “Creating MovieClips Dynamically” vs. “Generating different instances of a movieclip from the library”

the above is actually trying to create new custome classes by a custome name.

From your post, what I think you are looking for is to actually drop different instances of a movieclip from the library, which you will understand how to do it if you take a look at this post:
http://www.emstris.com/2009/02/as3-how-to-control-a-movieclip-from-a-class/

I hope it helps.

By: nck

nck — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:13:17 +0000

what i’ve been tearing myself apart trying to figure out is, if i have a bunch of assets that are placeholders for things that would normally be loaded dynamically (i.e., a bunch of client logo PNGs that must be exported with actionscript because the .swf is required to be portable as a standalone file, yet flexible enough to quickly add and re-arrange the logos) how can i specify the asset from the library using a string instead of a hard-coded class name.

i can certainly use a uniform naming convention for a set of classes (logo_1, logo_2, logo_3, etc) and I’m now attempting to use an eval() implementation such as (pseudo):

logoEmcees[ i ] = eval( “new logo_” + i + “1)” );

if anyone has success with that or knows a better way before i hurt myself trying, please holler back.

nck

By: secret and anonymous

secret and anonymous — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:30:59 +0000

I love you for this