[RESOLVED] Insert a button for every loop

[Laserkatt]

Hey ho,

I'm trying to achieve a function that inserts a list of buttons on the stage. The number of the buttons should be determined by a for-loop. This is my code today. As you can see it only returns the result in a text field.

for (var i = 0; i < menuarray.length; i++)
{
	xmlbox.text =xmlbox.text+"\n"+this.firstChild.childNodes[9].childNodes[i].attributes.name;    
}

Just the clarify: the code I would like some help with should look something like this:

for (var i = 0; i < menuarray.length; i++)
{
	insert button, x-cord = 123 and y-cord=456
}

I guess there are some nice guide out there, but I can't really find what I am looking for when searching.

I'm not asking you to do the work for me, but I would be so very thankful if someone could just point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advice!

[nunomira]

hi Laserkatt,

Welcome to FlashKit.

Shouldn't it be something like:

code:

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for (var i = 0; i < menuarray.length; i++)

{

	var btn = new MyBtn();

	btn.x = 123;

	btn.y = 456 + i*20;

	

	addChild (btn);

}

---

?
Where MyBtn is the Class associated to the button.

[Laserkatt]

Thank you so very mutch! Now all I have to do is figure out how to create a button class

[nunomira]

Hi,

That's done in the library, by rightclicking the movie clip.
Here's an example.

[nunomira]

hi,

You can use an array to store the links along with a variable associated with each of the buttons.

code:

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var links:Array = new Array('http://www.google.com/', 'http://www.yahoo.com/','http://www.flashkit.com/','http://www.adobe.com/','http://www.google3.com/','http://www.google3.com/','http://www.google4.com/');



for (var i = 0; i < 7; i++) {

	var btn = new MyBtn();

	btn.x=0;

	btn.y=0+i*40;

	btn.txtBox.text=i;

	btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myButtonFunction);

	

	btn.i = i; // store a variable in each movie clip



	addChild(btn);

}



function myButtonFunction(event: MouseEvent) {

	var btn:MovieClip = MovieClip(event.currentTarget);

	trace (btn.i);

	

	var link:String = links[btn.i]; // grab the variable stored in the movie clip

	trace (link);

	/* uncomment this

	var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest(link);

	navigateToURL(request);

	*/

}

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