Array Question

[yogidishman]

I am having a problem with an array and 3 strings that I have loaded into it and now want to retrieve and display at certain locations on the stage

I have a 3 element array string and I am loading a string into each element. When a button is pressed I want the elements in the array to display on the stage at specified locations. This should be easy to do but I am getting an error message when I try to specifiy the x,y coordinates of these strings. Here is the error message and my code.

1119: Access of possibly undefined property x through a reference with static type String.

I believe this message is tellling me that I can't position a string element on the stage. If not, how and what must I convert it to in order to place it. ? Thank you.

var myList:Array = new Array("Mario", "Luigi", "Kirby");

var letter1:String
var letter2:String
varl letter3:String

letter1=myList[0]
letter 2=myList[1]
letter 3 = myList[2]

Answer_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,answe r1);
function answer1(e:MouseEvent):void
{

letter1.x=100
letter1.y=300
letter2.x=200
letter2.y=300
letter3.x=300
letter3.y=300

}

[henke37]

A String is not a TextField. The compiler would have caught this error if you had used a vector instead of an array.

[suresh02sd]

exactly you need to pay attention to the diffrence between complex variables(objects and such) and primitive variables(numbers, strings...) primitives don't have properties. or in your case you are treating the strings as a movieclip/text field and you can't do that.

[yogidishman]

okay, thanks, but how do I do this then? Do I somehow define these words as something other than string prior to placing them in my array. For example, can I take a string that was entered from a "text" input box, convert it to an object (mc) and then store it so that I can later retrieve it and position it on the stage ?

[[afz]snickelfitz]

Where are the named MovieClips in question located, if they are not already on the stage?
ie: Mario Luigi and Kirby

By what mechanism where these MovieClips named?

[henke37]

You can't "convert" a String to a MovieClip, a String doesn't know anything about MovieClips. Also, Strings are Objects. They are just immutable, like in Java.

Anyway, the important part here is that a String is not an instance of a MovieClip, it isn't a symbol name and it isn't a class name. It is just a String.

You can use Strings to find existing instances in various ways and you can use Strings to look up Classes for use in creating new instances. But they are not the same object.

[thawfeek_yahya]

You are trying to access a undefined variable x ie) A String Class does not has property named x. if you are trying to place each string value in a certain place in the stage try this



var letter1:TextField = new TextField();
var letter2:TextField = new TextField();
varl letter3:TextField = new TextField();

letter1.text = "Mario"
letter 2.text = "Luigi"
letter 3.text = "Kirby"

Answer_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,answe r1);
function answer1(e:MouseEvent):void
{

letter1.x=100
letter1.y=300
letter2.x=200
letter2.y=300
letter3.x=300
letter3.y=300

}