Question

I just started using flash so this might be a simple thing so please be patient.

I’m doing a project were I have a map and you can click the places on the map and the info appears. I could manage to link every button_btn to every info_mc but that would take forever, so I tried to make a function that would read the buttons name and redirect to the info_mc itself. However since the name is being converted to string when I change from name_mc to name_info it is not redirecting. Here is the code.

    winterfell_info.visible = false;

    map.winterfell_btn.doubleclickEnabled = true;
    map.winterfell_btn.mouseChildren = doubleClickEnabled;
    map.winterfell_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, show_clicked);

    function show_clicked(e:MouseEvent):void{
         var get_name = e.currentTarget.name;
         var open_info_string = get_name.slice(0,-3) + "info";
         //I've tried some things here but nothing is working for me. 
         var open_info = stage.getChildByName(open_info_string);
         open_info.visible = true;      
    }

Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you.

And if you wondering yes its a map for Game of Thrones.

Answer 1

Remove quotes around “open_info_string”, as a first measure, and change the capital S in that string to normal one “s”, because Actionscript is case sensitive.

var open_info = stage.getChildByName(open_info_string);

Then, if it wouldn’t work at once, insert a trace(open_info_string); before you try to reach the movie clip, to find out whether it was cropped correctly.