My buttons wont' populate and I have no clue why

[Defyeler]

My buttons won't populate.. I'm obtaining the variables thru XML data, everything else in the damn thing works fine, so I know the data is loading correctly, but my buttons won't populate.. I'm wondering if anyone sees something wrong in my code cause I don't see it.. thanks

function buildMenu(){
    tiles = new Array();
    for (i=0; i < menuItems.length; i++) {
        duplicateMovieClip(master, "tile" + i, 1000 + i);
        tiles[i] = this["tile" +i];
//set the master tile position with XML data
        tiles[i]._x = Number(menu.attributes.x);
        tiles[i]._y = Number(menu.attributes.y) + (i * master._height);
        tiles[i].title = "<P ALIGN=\"CENTER\"><FONT FACE=\"" + menuItems[i].fontFace + "\" SIZE=\"" + menuItems[i].fontSize + "\" COLOR=\"#" + menuItems[i].textColor + "\">" + menuItems[i].Artist + "</FONT></P>"
        tiles[i]._name = menuItems[i].title.substr(0, 4);
//sets the index value to i so it will work with our internal Array and XML
//sets an i to id so it can be called from our XML playlist Array
        tiles[i].index = i;
        tiles[i].id = i;
    }
    loadTrack(index);
    playlistmenu.setScrollContent("menu");
} 

[Defyeler]

nvm I fixed it.

my menu.attribute.x and y coordinates were pionting out in space lol...

[iguanagirl32]

Try changing tile to tiles:

tiles[i] = this["tile" +i];

to

tiles[i] = this["tiles" +i];

[Defyeler]

oh, tiles and tile are two different things

tiles is the new name for the button

tile is the new instance name for the button, they cannot be the same.

The script above makes a series of buttons called

tiles with instance names of tile

so if i had 4 buttons they would be

tiles1 with instance name of tile1
tiles2 with instance name of tile2
tiles3 with instance name of tile3
tiles4 with instance name of tile4

they can't be the same because I'm assigning the buttons to a scrollpane also.

[Steve_w_V]

But the name of the duplicated movie clip is "tile" plus i. "tiles" is the array name.

-edit-

But I see you already answered....

[iguanagirl32]

maybe try removing the quotes from tile...?