Question

Hopefully this should be a quick question. I’m having trouble accessing some movie clips in my library dynamically using an array.

Basically, my array holds a bunch of letters..

var monarray:Array =("AAACBCBCAABBC").split("");

Now, my library holds three movie clips. They have the following AS3 linkage:
monsterA
monsterB
monsterC

What I want to do is create a new instance of an object based on where I am in the array.. For example, when monarray is at index [0], I want monsterA to be added..

This is the code I am using to try and achieve this effect:

var b = new monster[monarray[i]];
b.x = mouseX;
b.y = mouseY;
addChild(b);
i ++;

However, upon compiling my .swf, I get this error:

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 9   1086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before leftbracket.

I understand this is because I’m obviously not doing it right, but I’ve only ever used arrays to call up a specifically-indexed instance.

I’m sorry if this is noobish, but I’m not quite sure how I can dynamically choose between these three library instances on the go!

Thanks a lot in advance!

Harry.

Answer 1

not sure try:

var mst = getDefinitionByName("monster"+monarray[i]) as Class;
var b = new mst;