flash actionscript: how can i take a bunch of repetitive code and clean it up into one nice neat
code? for instance...

this.createEmptyMovieClip ("tps_text", 100);
tps_text._x = 36;
tps_text._y = 7;

this.createEmptyMovieClip ("imaging_text", 200);
imaging_text._x = 36;
imaging_text._y = 66;

this.createEmptyMovieClip ("osd_text", 300);
osd_text._x = 36;
osd_text._y = 85;

this.createEmptyMovieClip ("bolts_text", 400);
bolts_text._x = 36;
bolts_text._y = 115;

this.createEmptyMovieClip ("closeouts_text", 500);
closeouts_text._x = 36;
closeouts_text._y = 101;

this.createEmptyMovieClip ("debris1_text", 600);
debris1_text._x = 36;
debris1_text._y = 92;

//ad nauseum

use arrays and a loop
say:

tps_x = new Array(value1,value2,...ext);
tps_y = new Array(value1,value2,...ext);
clipName = new Array(value1,value2,...ext);

for(i=0; i<clipName.length; i++){
clip = eval(clipName[i];
clip._x = tps_x[i];
clip._y = tps_y[i];
}

good luck

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Only that for loop will fail due to syntactic omission (left out a closing
paren), and would be better still done with the array access operator for
the reference resolution, as well (variable changed from "i" to "j" to
prevent italicization in the forum):

for(j=0; j<clipName.length; j++){
clip = this[clipName[j]];
clip._x = tps_x[j];
clip._y = tps_y[j];
}

And even better would be to store the clip names in the array as references,
so that forcing strings to resolve to references would be entirely
unnecessary:

clipName = [tps_text, imaging_text, osd_text, bolts_text, closeouts_text,
debris1_text];

Then the loop would be simply:

for(j=0; j<clipName.length; j++){
clipName[j]._x = tps_x[j];
clipName[j]._y = tps_y[j];
}

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