Dynamic Arrays

[shawnl]

I am looking through a for loop and I need to add a string to an array each time... I tried just _global.buttonArray = "test" + i; but each object ends up undefined at the end... here is an overview of my code

for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
     _global.buttonArray[i] = "test" + i;
     trace(_global.buttonArray[i]);
}

[kortex]

Try changing global to _root after defining the array on the root level (has more or less the same effect as global)

[wombatLove]

You must first tell flash that you want it to be an array, then you should have no problems.

_global.testArray = new Array();

for( var i = 0; i < 5; i++ ) {
	_global.testArray[i] = "test" + i;
}

trace( _global.testArray );

[swak]

_global.testArray = new Array();

for( var i = 0; i < 5; i++ ) {
testArray[i] = "test" + i;
}

trace(testArray );

After saying that something is global, you don't need to keep stating that you're targeting the global one, It's global for a reason.