[RESOLVED] Loop brain fart

[jweeks123]

this is my loop. Basically I want to loop through every instance on the stage with the prefix of hotspot. I.E. - hotspot1, hotspot2, hotspot3, and so on.

Anyway, I do this, and get a reference error when i is greater than the amount of hotspot movieclips.

for (var i:uint = 1; this["hotspot"+i]; i++) {
	trace(i);
	this["hotspot"+i].alpha = 0;
	trace(this["hotspot"+i].alpha);
}

then I try this:

for (var i:uint = 1; i<this["hotspot"+i]; i++) {
	trace(i);
	this["hotspot"+i].alpha = 0;
	trace(this["hotspot"+i].alpha);
}

and nothing happens.

Then if I enter the total number of hotspot movieclips on stage it works, but I want it to count them, instead of me doing it. I.E. - this works:

for (var i:uint = 1; i<16; i++) {
	trace(i);
	this["hotspot"+i].alpha = 0;
	trace(this["hotspot"+i].alpha);
}

Any ideas? Thanks