Help with refer

[simonn]

Hi,

I'm Simon, and I'm quite new to ActionScript 3.0 but I think it's fun to learn.

I've got a problem and would be very glad for your helping

On the stage, I've got 4 boxes (shapes) which all are MovieClips and each has 11 frames with different drawed symbols. When a box, inside it's movieclip, comes to a frame, I've written stop(); there so it stays at the current drawed symbol.

On the frame 1 in each box, there is nothing, and I if the MovieClip is stop on frame 1, there are nothing drawed, so it is empty.

All boxes has instance name, first: box_1, second: box_2 and so on...

In another MovieClip on stage, I've written this function. I want the loop to find the first "empty box" (which is stop at frame 1) and then move that MovieClip to frame 3 and stop.

So, if box_1 is at frame 3, it will check if box_2 is at frame 1 and so on

function findBox (event) {

    for (var i:int = 0; i < 4; i++) {
        
        if (MovieClip(root).box_+i.currentFrame == 1) {
            
        
        MovieClip(root).box_+i.gotoAndStop(3);
        break;
        
}

I would be very glad if someone could explain how to write this.

Thanks
/Simon

[RogerClark]

Hi Simon,

I'm not totally sure what you're trying to do, but I can see some errors in your code

so I've tried to fix them

function findBox (event) {

    for (var i:int = 0; i < 4; i++) {
        
        if (MovieClip(root)["box_"+i].currentFrame == 1) {
            
        
        MovieClip(root)["box_"+i].gotoAndStop(3);
        break;
}// if
}// for 
}

[simonn]

Hi Roger,

Thank you very much. By correcting my code, you solved my problem.

Have a nice weekend

Regards
/Simon