Getting movieclips from the library dynamically

[Tempesta]

Hi I'm in the midst of a painstaking port from AS2 to AS3 on a game I have created. Now a piece of code I use a lot is for example;


function wave() {
for(var i:int = 0; i<10; i++) {

enemies.attachMovie("enemy"+i, i);

}
}

that way I can get enemy1, enemy2, enemy3,... and so on from my library.

how do I go about doing he same thing in AS3?
I have tried

var nextEnemy:MovieClip = new [enemy+i] as MovieClip;

and so on, but none of it works, any tips?

[frizb]

I'm no expert but you could try this...

function wave() {
for(var i:int = 0; i<10; i++) {

//enemies.attachMovie("enemy"+i, i);
var enemies:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
enimies.name = "enemy" + i;

}
}

I just did something like that last week & I'm pretty sure that was the code. Just make sure you export your clip from the library for actionscript.

[Tempesta]

Thanks for the reply, but in that code you just create an empty movieClip and name it enemy1, enemy2 and so on. You don't pick up anything from the library?

[Tempesta]

anyone? help would be greatly appreciated

and oh yeah right now, another thing has got me stuck.
I'm trying to reach a sprite that is added as an child a couple of sprites down the line, at firs I created Sprite1, and added it as a child on "_root" (I know as3 programmers hate that word then I added sprite2 to sprite1 and so on. How do I reach that sprite3?

var tweenThis:Sprite = Sprite(Sprite1.Sprite2.Sprite3);
is my first idea, but it didnt work, still some as2 left in me.

thanks