Re: FLASH: array trouble - final. really!

[Helen Triolo]

Hi Paul,


I agree, if you wanted to do array operations, you'd be better off

creating a new array object.  But if you just needed to be able to

access the variables in a loop, you could do so just as well with

_root["soundpress"+i] (or _root.somemc["soundpress"+i]).  And I didn't

mean that my solution was necessarily the final one, just that I would

stop going on and on with different thoughts.  It often seems that just

as I send a reply, I think of some qualifier I should've added, or some

different way of doing it that's better, but think I must be providing

more confusion than solution with those zillion different posts all with

the same header.  That's why I said final (as in "Brain dump complete.

I'll shut up now").  But having said that, I also find that I learn the

most from posts that continue beyond just one person's question and

another person's answer, especially if the original poster follows up

with a "this is what ended up working best because..." kind of post.

 

Regards,

Helen 

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Paul Willoughby wrote:

> 

> Hi Helen,

> 

> I've just been following this thread as I'm trying to get my head round

> a similar sort of thing.

> But I don't quite understand this 'final' solution. I understand that

> the loaded variables can be accessed with the array syntax, but if you

> do it look this is there any way you can still use array methods (like

> array.pop, array.join). Surely you'd have to use your previous

> suggestion of creating a new array object before you could use those

> methods on the array???

> 

> regards

> 

> confused paul

> 

> Helen Triolo wrote on 20 December 2000:

> 

> > You already have an array, once

> > you've read the

> > variables in.  (doh!)

> >

> > If you do loadVariablesNum("yourtext.txt",0) then they'll be

> > accessible

> > as _root["soundpress"+i], as mentioned below.

> >

> > If you read them into a separate movieclip (which provides the

> > additional benefit of being able to check for variables

> > loaded with the

> > onClipEvent(data) routine instead of the 2-frame loop mentioned

> > previously), with eg, LoadVariables("yourtext.txt","varclip"), you

> > should be able to access them with _root.varclip["soundpress"+i].  So

> > you don't even need to create an extra array either way.

> 

> 

> > Helen Triolo wrote a bit earlier:

> > >

> > > Yes, that's what I was saying.  But thinking about it a bit more, I

> > > think my idea isn't so great.  Flash may barf on such a big

> > string for

> > > one variable, and the split method is really slow.  Probably your

> > > original way is better, using a text file with

> > > soundpress0=55555&soundpress1=44444&...soundpress899=33333.

> > >

> > > Then after you've read in the 900 variables, you could put

> > them into an

> > > array with

> > >

> > >   aSounds = new Array(900);

> > >   for (i=0; i<900; i++) {

> > >     aSounds[i] = _root["soundpress"+i];

> > >   }

> > >

> > > You would still access the array elements as aSounds[thiselement].

> > >

> > > Regards,

> > > Helen


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