Question

I’m working on a project where I have a bunch of objects (same type) placed on the stage. What I want to do is add all of these objects to an array.

Here is my code, doesn’t work though. I know this isn’t the best way to go about adding things to the stage, but I have to do it this way.

package 
{   
import flash.events.Event
import flash.display.MovieClip;

public class Pellet_Manager extends MovieClip
{
    var pellets:Array = new Array();
    var pellet:Pellet;

    public function Pellet_Manager()
    {
        var pellet:Pellet;
        for (Pellet in stage)
        {
            pellet = Pellet;
            pellets.push(pellet);
        }
    }
}

}

I have 5 instances of Pellet on the stage and I want to add them to the pellets array. Should I give each one an instance name like “pellet1” and loop through the stage checking for each one and adding it to the array?

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

1) To access the stage, you have add your manager to it, and write a callback function when it’s added to stage

2) Your foor loop has some errors

Hope it helps!

 package  {   
      import flash.events.Event
      import flash.display.MovieClip;

      public class Pellet_Manager extends MovieClip  {
          var pellets:Array = new Array();
          var pellet:Pellet;

          public function Pellet_Manager()  {
              this.addEventListener (Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage, false, 0, true);
          }

          private function onAddedToStage (evt:Event) {
                var pellet:Pellet;
                for each (var pellet:Pellet in this.stage)   {
                    pellets.push(pellet);
                }
          }


      }

 }