KEEP having problem with XML duplicateMovieClip

[deanshelton1334]

Can anyone please explain why the code below does not load the XML text into myTextArea

this is supposed to duplicate a movieclip with the instance name "story" and populate it with "headline" text from the XML..... check it out... this code actually DOESN'T work!

//Load xml...blah blah blah...

for (n=0; n<maxnum; n++) {
            
    storX =30;
    storY = (story._height*n)+buffer;
    
    specs = xml.firstChild.childNodes[n].attributes;
    //menu
    duplicateMovieClip(story,"story_"+n, n);
    stor = eval("story_"+n);
    stor._y = storY;
    stor._x = storX;
    
        stor.headline = specs.headline;//<---this sets the variable
    stor.myTextArea.text = this.headline;//<----this is not working, WHY?!
    
     //can someone please explain why this does not work instead of just writing down the answer..?
     
     stor.onRollOver = function(){
    trace(this.headline);//<----this IS working... what the hell? how can this work, but not above?
} 

[whispers]

have you tried:

stor.myTextArea.text = specs.headline;

instead?

because (I believe) any reference to this would mean the XML doc.

and NOT the duplicated movieClip.

[deanshelton1334]

yes i have tried that... and it seems like it should work...but alas... it does not.
Please, any other ideas?

-Dean

[whispers]

can you trace out the:

this.headlines;

or how about the:
specs.headline; even?

if BOTH are undefined..then the var IS NOT getting populated correctly.

alternately.. maybe try giving your duplicateMovieClip() method a var name:


var stor = duplicateMovieClip(story, "story_"+n, this.getNextHighestDepth());
stor._y = storY;
stor._x = storX;
stor.headline = specs.headline;

and try that... etc..


however being that it is a component..

"I" personally believe it to be a 'BUG' in the initialization of the textarea component..

I bet if you made a super simple setInterval() function that gets called even 100 milliseconds after you duplicate the clip it would populate correctly..