Question

I was hoping for a way that I could save on code by creating a loop for a few lines of code. Let me explain a little, with-out loop:

icon1.button.iconLoad.load(new URLRequest("icons/icon1.jpg"));
icon2.button.iconLoad.load(new URLRequest("icons/icon2.jpg"));
icon3.button.iconLoad.load(new URLRequest("icons/icon3.jpg"));
icon4.button.iconLoad.load(new URLRequest("icons/icon4.jpg"));

etc… But with a loop could I have something like:

for (var i:uint = 0; i < 4; i++) {  
    icon+i+.button.iconLoad.load(new URLRequest("icons/icon"+i+"jpg"));
}

Any ideas welcome…

Answer 1

I would do something like this:

import flash.utils.Dictionary;

var iconDict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
iconDict[icon1] = "icons/icon1.jpg";
iconDict[icon2] = "icons/icon2.jpg";
iconDict[icon3] = "icons/icon3.jpg";
iconDict[icon4] = "icons/icon4.jpg";

for (key:Object in iconDict)
{
    key.button.iconLoad.load(new URLRequest( iconDict[key] ));
}

This allows you to call your icon objects whatever you like, as well as the actual icon graphics whatever you like.

There is some documentation on Dictionary here.