dynamically updating an array

[jenni_fur]

Hi I am having trouble sorting out the following code,
basically tmi is a number of movie clip instances on stage, when i press a button i want the number of movie clips to increase, which works fine.

However i need the additional number to be added to the cxi and cxy arrays. These control other areas of the movie.


var tmi = 8;

for (i = 1; i < tmi; i++)
{
circle0.duplicateMovieClip("circle" + i, i);
//eval("circle" + i).ball_txt.text = i;
}

cxi = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8];
cyi = [8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1];

any help would be gratly appreciated

[VI Knight]

cxi.push(new value);
cyi.push(new value);

[jenni_fur]

your a star....thanking you very much!!!!

[VI Knight]

glad to help

[jenni_fur]

I have another question now, but i dont want to post another
thread.

Is it possible to place dynamically created clips within a bounding box?

I have a lovely random motion code but i need to confine duplicated clips to particular areas of my stage.

ie red clips to the red box

This is the code, i cant take credit for the random motion, its from a tutorial.

trace (_global.phytoTemp);
level = 0 ;
while (level<_global.phytoTemp) {

phyto_mc.duplicateMovieClip("newclip"+level,level) ;
level++;
}

function getdistance(x, y, x1, y1) {
var run, rise;
run = x1-x;
rise = y1-y;
return (_root.hyp(run, rise));
}
function hyp(a, b) {
return (Math.sqrt(a*a+b*b));
}
MovieClip.prototype.reset = function() {
//specify the width and height of the movie
width = 300;
height = 200;
//-------------------
var dist, norm;
this.x = this._x;
this.y = this._y;
this.speed = Math.random()*4+2;
this.targx = Math.random()*width;
this.targy = Math.random()*height;
dist = _root.getdistance(this.x, this.y, this.targx, this.targy);
norm = this.speed/dist;
this.diffx = (this.targx-this.x)*norm;
this.diffy = (this.targy-this.y)*norm;
};
MovieClip.prototype.move = function() {
if (_root.getdistance(this.x, this.y, this.targx, this.targy)>this.speed) {
this.x += this.diffx;
this.y += this.diffy;
} else {
this.x = this.targx;
this.y = this.targy;
if (!this.t) {
this.t = getTimer();
}
if (getTimer()-this.t>1000) {
this.reset();
this.t = 0;
}
}
this._x = this.x;
this._y = this.y;
};

[VI Knight]

yes it would be possible but i would have to mess around with it some to get the exact coding.

[jenni_fur]

Thanks for the reply, im still working on it. I have been trying a few different approaches, trying to define gamePlayArea = [0, 0 , 550, 450] ; as opposed to height and width. but at least now i know its definitely possible. basically i have three boxes on screen and i need three different buttons to duplicate the clips into their respective boxes.

i have realized since that the above random motion is probably unnecessarily complicated, so i pared it back to duplicated clips within a particular area, which is fine. i making a little progress. although i do love that random motion.