CS4-AS2-Can a MovieClip see its own name?

[Degraiver]

Well I want a movieclip to stop movie if it touches another movieclip that is in an Array, only problem is this movie Clip is also included in this movieclip.

ex. 
//in First Frame//
array = [_root.thing1, _root.thing2, _root.thing3]

//inside thing1//
for (i=0;i<_root.array;++i){
if (this.hitTest (_root.array[i])){
stop();}}

Edit:

So I was messing around with this to try and figure out what was wrong and I found that the Original monster can detect all its clones, and all its clones can detect the original, but the clones cant detect eachother.

This is how I make clones of Thing

onClipEvent (load) {
	ad = 1;
}
//in another MovieClip i have it add +1 to _root.thingnum every 2 secs to make them spawn for me//
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (_root.thingnum>ad) {
		duplicateMovieClip("_root.thing", "thing"+ad, ad);
		if (ad>1000) {
			ad = 1;
		} else {
			ad++;
		}
	}
}

Does the Detection error have something to do with cloning? or What exactly am I doing wrong?

so Ya main Questions:

1. Is Cloning stopping Scripts?
2. Am I calling the Collision Detection correctly?
3. Can MovieClips see their Own Name?
4. Am I going crazy from lack of sleep?

[ZippyDee]

if(clipFromArray._name != this._name){

[Degraiver]

Thanks. This Helps kinda. With this the original wont generate unnecessary scripts, but the duplicates still cant detect these codes for some reason.

[ZippyDee]

Instead of using duplicateMovieClip, I tend to find that attachMovie works a lot better.

[Degraiver]

Hmm Ive been trying to work with this attachMovie thing, but it doesnt seem to be working....

mob.attachMovie("mob1","mob"+ad,ad,this); 

Thats how its suppose to be setup right?
idname = mob1
newname = mob+New integer
depth = New integer
initObj = This for the codes inside the original object

Did i miss something? or misunderstand something?

[ZippyDee]

make sure you have the linkage name of the clip you want to attach set to "mob1"

[Degraiver]

Awesome. I got it to add with attachMovie, but it has no script. Do I make a external script for it? Or how can I just copy the current script of the original into the copy. cause ive used _root.mob, mob, "mob", and "_root.mob" and they just dont do anything.

[ZippyDee]

say your original has an instance name of "orig" and you have written an onClipEvent(enterFrame) function for it.

You can say this:

var mc = attachMovie("mob1", "mob"+ad, ad, this);
mc.onEnterFrame=orig.onEnterFrame();

you can set any property using "mc.XXXX". For example:

//set any values or variables that you would set in
//the original movieclip's onClipEvent(load) function.
mc._x=10; //sets the starting x
mc._y=50; //sets the starting y
mc.xmov=12; //creates and sets a variable called "xmov"
mc.ymov=14; //creates and sets a variable called "ymov"
//if you want to define a variable without giving it a value,
//just use:    mc.blah = undefined;

mc.onEnterFrame=function(){
//each frame increment x and y by xmov and ymov
_x+=xmov;
_y+=ymov;
}

That's just an example of setting properties. you can set whatever properties you need.

Hope that helps!

-Zippy Dee

[Degraiver]

attachMovie got way too complicated for me so i went back to duplicateMovieClip and I actually got it to work, the problem was

(_root.mobList[i].hitTest(this)) 

was wrong and i switched it to

(this.hitTest(_root.mobList[i])) 

it runs now but now something interesting is happening, I hope i can explain this well enough.

The oldest object will stop when touched by the newest object but the newest will continue moving until touched by a newer object.

so Obj1 still stop if touched by Obj2+ and Obj2 will stop if touched by Obj3+, so on and so forth. But I want it the other way around where Obj2 will stop if it touches Obj1 and Obj3 will stop if it touches Obj2-

This is my current script

for (i=0; i<_root.mobList.length; i++) {
                if (this.hitTest(_root.mobList[i])) {
                    if (this._name == _root.mobListB[i]) {
                        spd = 0.3;
                    } else {
                        spd = 0;
                    }
                }
            } 

I was thinking i could just [i-1] or [i+1] but that doesnt work and nor does ([i]-1)..... an suggestions?

Sorry about all this jumping around with the coding. Im just more comfortable with duplicateMovieClip than attachMovie.

[ZippyDee]

maybe try setting this.spd and mobList[i].spd to 0:

spd=0;
_root.mobList[i].spd=0;

And what is _root.mobListB?

[Degraiver]

well _root.mobList is _level0.mob1 which of course you know is the root command, but to check the name of the mob I cant use the same list so I had it creat a second list that only has the name mob1 w/o the _level0. If that makes any sense.

the _root.mobList[i].spd=0; does nothing to any of the mobs in the list.

I'd send you my game for you to look at but I'm not sure if you can understand my coding style... its not very elegent or neat LOL.

[ZippyDee]

okay, let me take a look at the code then.

[Degraiver]

ok... I dont know what you wanted to look at so Im placing mob, and the Duplicater.

Well here is the Mob's scripting. Its the object being duplicated.

Some of the vars arent being used, but I havent taken them out yet.

onClipEvent (load) {
    numb = _root.port.ad;
    game = 0;
    atkplyr = false;
    mbatk = false;
    dstnc = 0;
    strgth = 5;
    spd = 0.3;
    atked = false;
    lifehp = 100;
    run;
    falling;
    hit;
    gravity = 0;
    power = 0;
    touch = 0;
    hght = 0;
    frend = _root.mobList;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    dstnc = this._x-_root.player._x;

    hght = _root.player._y-this._y;
    if (dstnc<=60 && dstnc>=10 && hght>=-50 && hght<=49) {
        spd = 0;
        if (mbatk == false) {
            this.slash.gotoAndPlay(2);
            mbatk = true;
        }
    } else {
        if (this.hitTest(_root.dntmve)) {
            spd = 0;
        } else {
            for (i=0; i<_root.mobList.length; i++) {
                if (this.hitTest(_root.mobList[i])) {
                    if (this._name == _root.mobListB[i]) {
                        spd = 0.3;
                    } else {
                        this.mobList[i].spd = 0;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    if (this.slash._currentframe == 1) {
        mbatk = false;
    }
    this.hp.hpbar._xscale = Math.round(100*lifehp/100);
    if (lifehp<0) {
        lifehp = 0;
    }
    if (lifehp<=0) {
        _root.player.exp += 1;
        duplicateMovieClip("_root.mny", "mny"+_root.kpr, _root.kpr);
        _root["mny"+_root.kpr]._x = this._x;
        _root["mny"+_root.kpr]._y = this._y;
        _root.kpr += 1;
        this.removeMovieClip();
    }
    if (_root.spring.hitTest(this._x, this._y, true)) {
        power = 10;
    }
    if (this.slash.atkzone.hitTest(_root.player.hitzone)) {
        if (atkplyr == false) {
            _root.player.hlth -= strgth;
            atkplyr = true;
        }
    } else {
        atkplyr = false;
    }
    if (this.hitspot.hitTest(_root.player.attack1)) {
        if (atked == false) {
            if (_root.player.attack1._currentframe>90) {
                this._x += 15;
            }
            lifehp -= 50;
        } else {
        }
        atked = true;
    } else {
        atked = false;
    }
    if (gravity>power) {
        falling = true;
    } else {
        falling = false;
    }
    if (run == true) {
        this._x -= spd;
    }
    this._y -= (power-gravity);
    if (_root.floor.hitTest(this._x, this._y, true)) {
        run = true;
        if (falling) {
            hit = true;
            power = 0;
            gravity = 0;
        }
    } else {
        hit = false;
    }
    if (hit == false) {
        gravity += .2;
    } else {
    }
    if (gravity>18) {
        gravity = 18;
    }
} 

And this is Port, the thing Duping my Mob object.

onClipEvent (load) {
    id = 1;
    ad = 1;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    if (_root.mobnum>ad) {
        duplicateMovieClip("_root.mob", "mob"+ad, (999-ad));
        _root.mobList[ad] = "_level0.mob"+ad;
        _root.mobListB[ad] = "mob"+ad;
        _root["mob"+ad]._x = 483;
        _root["mob"+ad]._y = 188;
        if (ad>1000) {
            ad = 1;
        } else {
            ad++;
        }
    }
} 

[ZippyDee]

you put

this.mobList[i].spd = 0;

instead of

this.spd = 0;
_root.mobList[i].spd = 0;

that may be the problem.