variable question

[lgs]

I have a text box inside a movie clip called 'comment'.
I have given the movie clip an ID of 1..
How do I give the comment text box a value equal to "_root.comment"+id (I have a few of the clip's instances, each with a different ID.. so I cant just use comment = _root.comment1)..
I have tried comment = "_root.comment"+id, but that returns a string...
any ideas?

[the sherrif]

not sure exactly what you mean, but try this, or a simalar combination of this:

code:

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_root.comment.text += String(id);

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[lgs]

i just want to give the variable 'comment', inside the clip 'clip', the value of '_root.comment+[ID]'
so if the clip had an id of 1, comment would get the value of _root.comment1
if the clip had an id of 2, comment would get the value of _root.comment2
etc. etc

[the sherrif]

you should use the _name property of an mc to recieve its instance name.

[lgs]

got it going..
used:
comment = _root["comment" + id];