multiple instance names!?

umm ive been experimenting on scripts that call out to instances with different names, but uses only one call script.

so ive done it like this, box1, box2, and box3 and so on and so forth

but what i cant do is to use, lets say box++?

is it possible to use a script that represents instance names with
accumilating numbers?

example:

box1, box2, box3, box4, box5...

_root.box++.do whatver


umm oh yeah....is this still a noob question?
haha tnx dudes!

Depends on what you want to use it for. A for loop will do something like that.

You can use a loop to perform some action with each of the clips,

Code:

---

for (var i = 1; i < howManyBoxes + 1; ++i) {
    _root["box" + i].doSomething();
}

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ohh thanks dudes! thx also for the sample file! Iv'e got a headstart one what to do,

oh yeah about your script catbert, i believe i saw the exact same thing in javascript, but i forgot the explanation on that... :p

can you ummm, enlighten me on this one?

thanks again dudes!! :cool: