help with for ( )

I have 7 movieclips that I called command1, command2, command3, ...

for each of them, I want to set their alpha value to 0

so, I use the command for()

for(i=1; i<8; i++){
???._alpha = 0;

but I don't know how to write the statement, I need help please

thanks

MaX_BoY

Hi,

If the for loop is in the same timeline as the movie clips you can use,

code:

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for (var i = 1; i < 8; ++i) {

    this["command" + i]._alpha = 0;

}

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if the clips are in a different timeline you just need to replace "this" with the path to the timeline that contains them so for example if the clips were in a movie clip named myClip which was on the same timeline as the code for the for loop you could use,

code:

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for (var i = 1; i < 8; ++i) {

    this.myClip["command" + i]._alpha = 0; // this version looks inside the clip myClip to find the command clips

}

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thank you