Question

I have 15 empty movie clips on the stage which load a swf into each at runtime from an array

i dont know which SWF is in wich movieclip, and the array has 155 SWF’s in it, including duplicates.

My question is how to play the swf in empty movieclip 4 or empty movieclip 6

               emptymovieclip1.play(this loaded movie) 

i dont know his name and i dont want to reference him by the key value from the array

Answer 1

The easy way is to put the reference of the movie in the array as well, like :

var loader:Loader;
var urlReq:URLRequest;
for(var i:uint = 0 ; i < myMovieClips.length; i++){
      //do your loading of your clips here
      loader = new Loader();
      urlReq = new URLRequest(myMovieClips[i]); //like myClipX.swf
      loader.load(urlReq);
      mcHolder.addChild(loader);
      myMovieClips[i] = loader;
 }

Then you can access your clip inside the loader like

 var clip:MovieClip = myMovieClips[5].content as Movieclip