Question

Is it possible to fill an array with the Movieclips already on the stage (or within another movieclip)?

E.g. if ‘_level’ is a Movieclip with more movieclips inside it, I want to do something like this:

var currentClip:MovieClip;
for (var i:int = 0; i < _level.numChildren; i++) {
    currentClip = _level[i];
    .....
}

Answer 1

you can iterate through them with a for loop:

var array:Array=new Array();
for(var i:int=0; i < stage.numchildren ; i++) {
   array.push(stage.getChildAt(i));
}

you can do a recursive function for this to get the children of the children, etc, like:

public var array:Array=new Array();
public function getChildren(do:DisplayObject){
  var arr:Array=new Array();
  for(var i:int=0; i < do.numchildren ; i++) {
       getChildren(getChildAt(i));
  }
  array.push(do);
}

and call it somewhere like:

getChildren(stage);