text button

[Shinji Ikari]

can anyone explain how i go about doing this?:
i have a box mc with a dynamic text on it. i also have this button. when i press the button i want the box mc to play and display a text in the text field. fairly easy, but the complicated part is that the next time i press the button i want a new text to appear, and then another and so on.
i really need help with this,
thanx in advance to the person who responds!

[pellepiano]

Have your text as variables in the first frame.

text1="bla bla"
text2="more bla bla" etc and a........
i=1;

On your button...

on(release){
myMCwithTextfield.textField=eval("text"+i);
i++
}

This will change the text everytime the button is clicked.

[Shinji Ikari]

thanx, but can u give me the action script in a little more detail?

[pellepiano]

Well, i rpresents a number. We set that number in the first frame .....i=1;
We also specified some text variables text1 text2 etc

On the button we have the code to display "text"+i which means
text1

The i++ makes the value of i to increase by one so the next time you click the button , "text"+i will mean text2 and so on.

The target path myMCwithTextfield.textField suggests that you have a MC called myMCwithTextfield with a dynamic textfield called textField inside.

[Shinji Ikari]

aaaaaaww!
i just dont seem to get it! i dont really want to ask you this, but could u please make me a simple .fla? just so i get the hang of it, please.

[markus H.]

put in a new array and use this as a source. (better a array than multiple variable, easier to update ;-))

The only thing you need is a movieclip named 'button' and a dynamic textfield named 'Label' on layer1

on layer 2 the code.

here it is:

button.onRelease = function () {
var myArr = ["text1", "text2", "text3"];
for (var item in myArr) {
if (item < this.curItem || this.curItem == undefined) {
this.newText = myArr[item];
break;
}
}
this.curItem = item
this._parent["Label"].text = this.newText;
};

[markus H.]

here is the fla

[Shinji Ikari]

thanx a lot markus and piano!
finaly i can carry on!

[Shinji Ikari]

hi again.
the thing works fine, just few things tough:
i have like 22 different texts i want to display. but it displayes the first 10 inputs, then jumps to the two last ones. how can i make it go through all of them? and make it loop, begin at the start when all are done?

[markus H.]

//<skywalker@succesnet.nl>

button.onRelease = function () {
var myArr = ["text1", "text2", "text3","text4", "text5", "text6","text7", "text8", "text9", "text10", "text11", "text12"];
for (var item = 0; item <= myArr.length - 1; item++)
{
trace(myArr.length)
if(this.curItem == myArr.length){this.curItem = undefined}
if (this.curItem < item || this.curItem == undefined)
{
this.newText = myArr[item];
break;
}
}
this.curItem = item;
this._parent["Label"].text = this.newText;
};