[RESOLVED] variable to control button visibility

[jonnycasino]

hey,

i have a movieclip called allBUTTONS which contains 18 buttons. This movieclip will be called numerous time on the CDROM I am creating, and each time the number of buttons visible will change.

So instead of writing the following code numerous times for however many buttons i want visible:

_root.allBUTTONS.button01._visible = true;
_root.allBUTTONS.button02._visible = true;
_root.allBUTTONS.button03._visible = true;
_root.allBUTTONS.button03._visible = false;

....I have written the following code:

var buttonNumber:Number = 0; 
for (var i:Number = 0; i < 6; i++) { 
  buttonNumber++;
  _global.buttonName = "button0"+buttonNumber;
  trace(buttonName);
  }

and this works fine and traces the following:

button01
button02
button03
button04
button05
button06

now i thought that i could add the follwing line into the loop:

_root.allBUTTONS.buttonName._visible = false;

so I have:

var buttonNumber:Number = 0; 
for (var i:Number = 0; i < 6; i++) { 
  buttonNumber++;
  _global.buttonName = "button0"+buttonNumber;
  _root.allBUTTONS.buttonName._visible = false;
  trace(buttonName);
  }

so each time the loop occurs it would turn buttons 1 - 6 invisible. It doesn't work though. Is the syntax wrong? Am I adding the 'buttonName' variable into the line of code in the wrong manner?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

James

[Gu35s]

maybe try this. didn't test, but maybe it would work.

for(i=1;i<=6;i++){
     b = (i<10) ? '0'+i : i;
     _root.allBUTTONS['button'+b]._visible = false;
}

[jonnycasino]

that worked perfectly.

thanks very much for your help....

james

[Gu35s]

np. btw, that b = yada is just so if you want i<= more than 10. So if you change 6 to 18 it would still work. if you want to just have up to 6 you can always change it to b = '0'+i; simpler.