[F8] simple question..

[derek youssi]

Hey everybody,

Ok, i'm wondering if I can simplify and shorten my code.

Currently, I have:

mc1.play();
mc2.play();
mc3.play();
mc4.play();
mc5.play();

is there any way to simplify this by doing something along the lines of

mc1,mc2,mc3,mc4,mc5.play();

I know this doesn't work, but i was wondering if there is a way to take tell multiple things to do the same action without having to write the command for each one seperately, or do an array or anything like that.

[a_modified_dog]

for(var n=1; n!=6;n++){
this["mc"+n].play();
}

[derek youssi]

Hey you rock man, thx for helpin us all out here.

That works, but it would only work for examples where all the movieclips are actually named like that.

What if you want to click a button to stop multiple movieclips on the stage, but the names are not incremental like that? Would you have to type myMovie.stop(); for every movieclip or can you write one line of code that will stop multiple movies if they're names are totally different?

[dmonkey]

Hi,

Write a function to stop movies passed as the arguments.

code:

---

function stopMovies() {

	for (var i in arguments) {

		arguments[i].stop();

	}

}



stopMovies(movie1, anotherMovie, mov3);

---

Hope this helps.

[silentweed]

and if u want to stop loads of movie clips but not write out their names then do:

stopAllMovies(_root); 

function stopAllMovies(movie:MovieClip):Void {
	movie.stop();
	for (var i:String in movie) {
		if (movie[i] instanceof MovieClip) {
			movie[i].stop();
			stopAllMovies(movie[i]);
		}
	}
}

the above example will stop all movieclips in the _root timeline (change this timeline according to your needs)