Question

I am trying to use a for loop to increment the creation of a movieClip and adds the movie clip to the stage.

Something like this:

        for (var i:int = 0; i<6;i++){
        var ball + i:MovieClip = new Ball();
        addChild(ball + i);
        ball + i.x = 470;
        ball + i.y = 130;
        }

Am I going about this incorrectly?
I am getting the following error:

C:\PATH TO MY /ASFILE.as, Line 64 1086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before plus.

Answer 1

I think a good way of doing this is by creating an Array containing the newly created balls.

var ball:Ball;
var arrayBalls:Array = new Array();

for (var i:int = 0; i<6;i++)
{
    ball = new Ball();
    addChild(ball);

    ball.x = 470;
    ball.y = 130;

    arrayBalls.push(ball);
}

You store a reference of every ball in the arrayBalls so you don’t have to create a new var each time. By stating ball = new Ball() you’re ‘erasing’ the previous stored value and simply create a new one. Later on you can loop through your Array and do whatever you like with it. Like so

var ball:Ball;
for (var i:int = 0; i < arrayBalls.length; i++) 
{
    ball = arrayBalls[i];
}

Or something like this

var ball:Ball = arrayBalls[3];

Hope this is what you were looking for.