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To make an object reference out of a string you can do it this way..

function Resolve() {
for (var j=1; j<10; j++) {
for (var i=1; i < 24; i++) {
var mc = this["joint"+i];
mc.resolveDistanceConstrain();
mc.resolveAngleConstrain();
mc.main();
}
}
mc.updatePosition();
}

Your J loop doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Is something missing?

For older versions of Flash like Flash 5 and earlier there is another
syntax to convert strings to clip references. Looks like this..
var mc = eval("joint"+i);

tralfaz

Dear all,

I have a general actionscripting question as well as a specific case scenario.
I'm relatively new to actionscripting but have quite a bit of Lingo experience.

I need to write some code that with update continuously (in order to animate a
character dynamically).
My first impulse would be, as a general rule, to write ALL of my code in the
first frame of the main timeline.
And then to call the animation functions I need onEnterFrame of an empty movie
clip located off-screen.
In this way, it seems to me but please correct me if i'm wrong, the functions
will be called as often as possible without blocking the machine....

More specificallly, I need to perform three actions (in a fixed order), repeat
on 23 remaining body parts ten times, then update the screen. Thus, a loop
within a loop, at least in Lingo... The function woud look something like this :

function Resolve() {
for (var j=1; j<10; j++) {
for (var i=1; i < 24; i++) {
joint = "joint" + i ; //DOES THIS WORK IN ACTIONSCRIPT ?
joint.resolveDistanceConstrain();
joint.resolveAngleConstrain();
joint.main();
}
}
joint.updatePosition();
}

Then I would call this function from the empty movie clip onEnterFrame, though
I'm not exactly sure how. It would look something like this :

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
Resolve(); // WHAT IS THE CORRECT WAY TO CALL THIS FUNCTION
}

My questions are : is it correct to call a continually-executing code from
within an empty mc ?
Can you concatenate (see joint+i above) the mc name you are trying to address ?
What is the correct syntax needed to call the function from the mc ?

THANK YOU !!

Clips (well, all objects in general), can be referenced using array syntax or
object syntax. These can be freely mixed in ActionScript. In your example,
"joint" isn't an object, it's a string containing the NAME of an object. So you
have to resolve this reference.

Array style:
joint = this["joint" + i]

Object style:
joint = eval("joint" + i)

Eh, I think that's right. Been a while since I used eval().

I should note that "joint" is a movie clip in the library