odd array issue

[Boombanguk]

Hi,

I'm trying to use this line to delete an element in my array

ScrollObjectsList.slice(Number(CurrentSelected),1) ;

but it doesn't seem to be deleting the actual data somehow, but when I use

ScrollObjectsList[Number(CurrentSelected)] = 0;

it works fine, any ideas??

boombanguk

[a_modified_dog]

to delete an element use array.splice

myArray.splice(2,1);
^---removes the element at index 2 in myArray

slice extracts a substring of the array and returns it as a new array

[Mirandir]

I think it's splice() you should use. Slice only creates a new array consisting of the "copies" of the specified elements.

/Mirandir

[Boombanguk]

sorry my bad, I was actually using splice not slice. But it wasn't working. Basically the array is a list of objects that create movie clips on screen. When I debug it, splice seems to delete the value from the array, but once the code is ran to create the clips from the array the clip object that should of been deleted (and that I saw get deleted in debug) reappears!, the only explanation is that it wasn't deleted somehow, but like i said, when I do = 0 it works fine, and the deleted clip doesn't reappear....weird. Wondering if its got something to do with the order being shifted??

[a_modified_dog]

have you tried declaring the variable outside of the splice -

id = Number(CurrentSelected);
trace(id+" - "+typeof id);
ScrollObjectsList.splice(id,1) ;

[Boombanguk]

just tried that, doens't work.

is there any way, that the data inside the element that i'm trying to splice is being shifted somehow into the next/previous element?

[a_modified_dog]

being shifted somehow into the next/previous element?

Only if you are telling it to.
Suggest you use trace to figure the logic ..ie -

ScrollObjectsList=["a","b","c","d"];

CurrentSelected = "1";
id = Number(CurrentSelected);
trace(id+" - "+typeof id); // 1 - number

trace(ScrollObjectsList); // a,b,c,d

ScrollObjectsList.splice(id,1) ;

trace(ScrollObjectsList); // a,c,d

[Boombanguk]

ok im doing that now, but something I just realised was, I'm actually using arrays in arrays, i.e each element contains another array (and the content of the arrays are instances of classes), could that be messing with it somehow?

[Boombanguk]

ah, i'm wondering if its got something to do with the fact that the arrays are arrays of instances of classes (which contain arrays of more instances to classes) could it be because they are objects, they are not being destroyed, even though their place in the array is??