Passing MC name in as a function variable?

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I'm having some troubles trying to create a function that uses a movieclip reference as one of the function parameters - I suppose I'm not sure how to properly call it so it carries out things on the proper MC?

While the actual function has a fair bit more to it than below, it basically looks like....

function clickedit(x, y) {

	if (_root.tileshuffled[x] == "a") {
		y.gotoAndStop("a");	

	}

}

...where x is a number referencing an array entry, and y is a movie clip reference.

It's called like:

on(press) {
	_root.clickedit(0, "t1");
}

The parameter x works fine, passing in the number to the function and working how I'd expect.

The parameter y doesn't seem to work as-is; it doesn't do anything when I try and use 'y' instead of hard coding the MC name into the function, though it works fine when hard coded like below:

function clickedit(x, y) {

	if (_root.tileshuffled[x] == "a") {
		t1.gotoAndStop("a");	
	}

}

Any tips on what I'm doing wrong here? I'm just trying to pass in the MC name "t1" to the function so it treats it accordingly.

Thanks!

[arkitx]

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function clickedit(x, y) {
    if (_root.tileshuffled[x] == "a") {
        this[y].gotoAndStop("a");
    }
}

OR

function clickedit(x, y) {
    if (_root.tileshuffled[x] == "a") {
        _root[y].gotoAndStop("a");
    }
}

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Thank you kindly! That did the trick.

[Prid]

EDIT: oops, had this tab open for a while

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Hi,

you're only passing a String to your function, and have no code in your function to convert the String to a defined MovieClip, which basically means that you're telling a String to gotoAndStop("a")

Either pass the y argument as a MovieClip by simply typing t1 without quotes - this will pass the full path to the MovieClip to your function:

on(press) {
    _root.clickedit(0, t1);
}

If you want to pass a String, then you'll have to make Flash look for the MovieClip with the same instance name. This can be achieved by using, scope[stuff_to_look_for], where scope is for example _root, _parent, this, etc. and the inside of the bracket is whatever you want (adding Strings, variables and Numbers together to make up a name), but whatever you type in there, Flash will look for an Object with the same name. In this case, when you send "t1" as a String into your Function, it will look for an Object with the same instance name, which is the movieclip with the instance name, t1, and refer to it. Here:

function clickedit(x, y) {

    if (_root.tileshuffled[x] == "a") {
        this[y].gotoAndStop("a");   
    }

}

Hope this helps