Getting multiple videos to play (easy question...)

[trubluah]

So I have like 13 movie clips. Movie clips in one layer and buttons on another that are above the clips. Each clip is labeled as varr1, varr2, varr3 and so on.

When a user click on a button, I would like for all but one movie clip to play it's animation. So for instance, the button for varr10 is clicked, I want all movie clips except varr10 to play it's animation.

I could do it the hard way, which is varr1.gotoAndPlay("yada"), and continue on... but I wanted something more efficient.

Could anybody assist me please?

[gparis]

use a for loop. It's an efficient method to target multiple serial named instances.

gparis

[trubluah]

use a for loop. It's an efficient method to target multiple serial named instances.

gparis

Ok, makes sense...so how would I create the code to send the play commands to each movie clip?

[gparis]

click on the link. you'll find examples of the for loop syntax in the livedocs.
something in these lines:

for (i = 0; i < clipNum; i++) {
this["mc"+i].play();
}

gparis