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Asked: 2026-05-19T15:45:49+00:00

I’m not certain how to word the question but hopefully my description will make

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I’m not certain how to word the question but hopefully my description will make things clear.

I have a movieClip with hundreds of smaller clips, much like a map. I want to name clips based on their type using a letter system. Type “e” = editable and type “i” = icon.

I have a script that will enumerate through all the children of my parent MC and determine the types of each one (“e” or “i”) but from that point I don’t have a way to retain which ones are which. If I were to apply some formatting to an object dynamically like height, width and color and store that in a Database, upon reload how do I determine which one they were applied to? I can’t use x and y coordinates because these elements can be moved as well.

Also assume that I can’t use a convention like “e1”, “e2”, “e3” – etc. We’re using this method now and it results in constant duplication of numbers due to the maps being hundreds of elements large.

I’m looking for a native identifier to flash. Possibly an undocumented property.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why can’t the parent display object just assign an identifier property on the base class and create a reference map when it is looping through the children?

    Flash will also auto assign an instance name to all display objects if you don’t specify one. The parent container can then save them off and use getChildByName().

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