Quick syntax fix - AS2

[iceflyin]

What am I doing wrong here?

//Doesn't work
Title+[i] = titleArray[i];
Title[i] = titleArray[i]; //Obviously doesn't work.
'Title'+i = titleArray[i]; //Nope...
('Title'+i) = titleArray[i]; //Nada...


//Works for a single variable - But, I would have to write out a ton of these... Cuz, this is used in a loop.
Title0 = titleArray[i];



Edit:Well, this works... Kinda odd workaround though. :/ I have to use two steps, and it should be one...

titleVar = 'Title'+i;
this[titleVar] = titleArray[i];

[StupidRalph]

What error were you getting? I don't know if you can have that on the left side of the equal sign. It looks like you can benefit from using the WITH statement. documetation (http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary826.html)


Well, in all honesty, I'm using tellTarget but I'm going to switch to using with as soon as I understand it more. I've started a thread about this not to long ago.

[iceflyin]

I'm simply trying to split an array and assign it to multiple variables.

var1=arrayPart[1]
var2= arrayPart[2]
etc...

This is actually the same workaround I used for this problem years ago, now the question is... Is this fixed in AS3? That would give me a reason to upgrade!

[StupidRalph]

In all honesty, I don't really know the differences between versions. Not sure if I've use Flash enough to upgrade quite yet. But I'm getting my feet wet and I'm becoming a little more comfortable with it.
However, AS3 did have the sound spectrum which I was definately interested in. I think it'll be cool to build an actual graphic equalizer for the mp3 player I just built.

[Omnis]

Using the eval() function should work. For references see the ActionScript Dictionary (http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary200.html) or LiveDocs (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00005702.html) at Adobe.

for (i=0; i<=3; i++) {
eval("title" + i) = titlearray[i];
}

Btw I'm using Flash 5, which has been around for a while and uses AS1 :).

[StupidRalph]

You're all over the place with the eval()...I came here to comment but looks like you beat me to the punch.

[iceflyin]

Using the eval() function should work. For references see the ActionScript Dictionary (http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary200.html) or LiveDocs (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00005702.html) at Adobe.

for (i=0; i<=3; i++) {
eval("title" + i) = titlearray[i];
}

Btw I'm using Flash 5, which has been around for a while and uses AS1 :).

Hum, no luck... The thing is, I'm not setting a variable... I'm setting a textfield property. Btw, I'm using CS3-AS3.


//Nopers...
this.eval('Title'+i).text=titleArray[i];
this.eval('URL'+i).text=urlArray[i];

//Nope....
set(this('Title'+i).text,titleArray[i]);
set(this('URL'+i).text,urlArray[i]);


Ahh, Ill juse use my current code until I find something better that works.


//Works nicely, but... I swear there must be a way to do this with half the code...
for (var i=0; i<=titleArray.length-1; i++) {
var titleVar = "Title"+i;
var urlVar = "URL"+i;
this[titleVar].text=titleArray[i];
this[urlVar].text=urlArray[i];
}

[Omnis]

You're all over the place with the eval()...

Well a lot of people don't know about it :p and its particularly useful


Hum, no luck... The thing is, I'm not setting a variable... I'm setting a textfield property. Btw, I'm using CS3-AS3.

Whether your using AS1/AS2/AS3 they're all based on the ECMA-262 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMA-262) specification, with each version of ActionScript becoming more refined (more like replaced) and extended, more info can be found on the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#Time_line_by_ActionScript_version). Anyway after checking out some CS3 documentation here (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00005514.html), here (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000222.html) and here (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000881.html), I've come to a conclusion: ActionScript Continuity Sucks! - but heres your solution nonetheless :)


for (var i=0; i<=titleArray.length-1; i++) {
eval("this.Title" + i + ".text") = titleArray[i];
eval("this.URL" + i + ".text") = URLArray[i];
}Hopefully this Works :rolleyes:

[iceflyin]

No go!

Error: #1084: Syntax error: expecting rightbrace before semicolon.

Thats for line two.

[Omnis]

If you've got some spare time could you please try these out. Both should work, which one you choose is up to you :thumbsup:

for (var i=0; i<=titleArray.length-1; i++) {
eval("this.Title" + i).text = titleArray[i];
eval("this.URL" + i).text = URLArray[i];
}

or this

for (var i=0; i<=titleArray.length-1; i++) {
this["Title"+i].text = titleArray[i];
this["URL"+i].text = URLArray[i];
}